YouTube Bans Billion-View Channels Over AI-Generated Fake Trailers

• YouTube permanently banned Screen Culture (India) and KH Studio (Georgia) for misleading AI-generated content.
• Both channels created realistic fake movie trailers, deceiving over 2 million subscribers and accumulating 1 billion views.
• They were previously demonetized but continued violating rules on spam and misleading metadata after reinstatement.
• Screen Culture exploited YouTube's algorithm with rapid, frequent uploads of fake trailers, some outranking official ones.
• YouTube is enforcing stricter policies against undisclosed, realistic AI-generated content to prevent viewer deception.

Why It Matters: YouTube cracks down on misleading AI content, banning channels with billions of views for fake trailers.