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YouTube Shuts Down Channels Using AI Making Fake Movie Trailers Seen by Millions

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by randycupertino

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I've gotten fooled by these fake-movie trailers before, ones made by AI and ones made of "fan edits" using the actors from other scenes. It's definitely annoying, especially when you're anticipating a film and excited to see the new trailer, it's weirdly bad or off and then you realize it's a fake trailer!
> Screen Culture had created 23 versions of a trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps by March, some of which outranked the official trailer in YouTube search results. More recent examples include HBO’s new Harry Potter series and Netflix’s Wednesday.
Also this is interesting:
> Our deep dive into fake trailers revealed that instead of protecting copyright on these videos, a handful of Hollywood studios, including Warner Bros Discovery and Sony, secretly asked YouTube to ensure that the ad revenue from the AI-heavy videos flowed in their direction.
https://deadline.com/2025/03/youtube-ad-revenue-fake-movie-t...

by ares623

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Imagine how much bandwidth and compute is used up serving this slop. Nevermind the compute needed to generate them in the first place.