TL;DR
- Two large YouTube channels that primarily published bootleg AI movie trailers have been banned.
- Screen Culture and HK Studio have been deplatformed for violating YouTube’s policies about spam and metadata accuracy.
- Together, videos by the two channels had been viewed more than a billion times.
Plenty of AI content has found a home on YouTube: fire up a fresh account, and you’ll be seeing gen-AI videos within just a few rounds of recommendations. AI video in general is allowed on YouTube, of course, but some of it does run afoul of YouTube’s policies — and now, two major offenders have been booted from the platform.
Deadline reports that YouTube has banned two large channels that had been peddling AI-generated movie trailers. The problem wasn’t the trailers themselves, but how they were presented: YouTube channels Screen Culture and KH Studio had been uploading a large quantity of AI movie trailers that weren’t clearly labeled, which YouTube says violates the platform’s policies on spam and misleading metadata.