YouTube suspends two major fake movie trailer channels from its partner program, after a report on how the AI-heavy trailers generated millions in ad revenue
It *is* misleading content, dummy. You wrote some AI prompts and put out some garbage content. Boo hoo, they cut off your revenue stream - about damn time! Joe Henderson / @joehenderson : Kudos to Deadline for their investigation and bringing attention to this, and starting to get results — I love movie trailers, and finding real ones is an impossible slog right now. — deadline.com/2025/03/yout... @applecider : I thought this happened because Youtube got yelled at by studios over views/DMCA, and it's even fucking wilder than that - studios getting their hands caught in the cookie jar by Deadline — deadline.com/2025/03/yout... LinkedIn: Jessie Stephenson : On the surface, it's great news that YouTube have actually taken a stand against misleading AI-fuelled content that appears to be highjacking views. … See also Mediagazer