Fake movie trailers are everywhere on YouTube, but now action is finally being taken against some of them after it was publicly revealed that movie studios were cashing in on those videos. Instead of ...
Welcome to Rendering, a Deadline column reporting at the intersection of AI and showbiz. Rendering examines how artificial intelligence is disrupting the entertainment industry, taking you inside key ...
Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. YouTube just prohibited ad sales on fake movie trailer channels Screen Trailers and Royal Trailer, alt accounts of two channels ...
YouTube is doing something we thought no internet company would ever do: Shutting off the money tube to the slop trough. Days after revealing that studios were profiting off the nauseating ...
EXCLUSIVE: YouTube has terminated two prominent channels that used artificial intelligence to create fake movie trailers, Deadline can reveal. The Google-owned video giant has switched off Screen ...
Any committed film geek who spends time on the internet, and particularly on YouTube, has surely experienced this particular phenomenon in the last few years: You read something about a film, and then ...
In brief: Following an investigation into the huge number of fake movie trailers seen on YouTube – most of which use AI to some degree – and how the money they generate is funneled back to the movie ...
This paper analyses how YouTube authenticates engagement metrics and, more specifically, how the platform corrects view counts by removing “fake views” (i.e., views considered artificial or ...