YouTube has permanently banned two popular channels that were making fake movie trailers with the help of artificial intelligence, according to Deadline.
Screen Culture and KH Studio were popular YouTube channels with a combined total of over 2 million subscribers and more than a billion views.
Okay, so I went to check out these channels, Screen Culture and KH Studio, and both are currently displaying an error message. It simply says the page isn’t available and suggests you try a different search. It’s a bit frustrating, of course, but not unexpected sometimes. Just to give you a little background, Screen Culture is based in India, and KH Studio operates out of Georgia.
After Deadline reported on the increasing number of fake trailers created using AI on YouTube, the platform temporarily stopped running ads on channels featuring them.
These channels were eventually able to earn money from their videos again by adding labels like “fan trailer,” “parody,” and “concept trailer.” Recently, though, those labels have stopped appearing, which has worried people who make fan trailers.
YouTube shut down the channels because they repeatedly broke the rules against misleading descriptions and tags, reverting to tactics that had previously gotten them penalized.
Screen Culture created realistic trailers using both real video clips and images generated by artificial intelligence, successfully deceiving a lot of people. According to Nikhil P. Chaudhari, the founder, his team of around twelve editors cleverly used YouTube’s system by uploading these fake trailers ahead of time and continually improving them.
For example, he mentioned that by March, Screen Culture had created 23 different versions of the trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and some of these versions actually performed better than the official trailer on YouTube. They’ve also recently made trailers for popular shows like HBO’s Harry Potter series and Netflix’s Wednesday.
The investigation showed that several major Hollywood studios, like Warner Bros. Discovery and Sony, quietly requested YouTube to send the advertising money from videos using a lot of AI to the studios themselves, rather than fully protecting their copyrights.
Disney content often appeared on both channels. Recently, Disney sent Google a legal notice, asserting that Google’s AI technology was widely violating Disney’s copyrights.
This recent action demonstrates that YouTube is now more actively addressing AI-created content that deceives people or breaks its policies.
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2025-12-18 22:44