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YouTube removed two channels that shared fake movie trailers made with AI. One channel was from India and the other from Georgia. These channels made fake trailers by mixing real footage with AI-made images to get a lot of views. YouTube had previously stopped them from showing ads because they broke rules about fake and misleading content, and about not saying when AI was used. Now, both channels are permanently gone from the platform. When you try to find them on YouTube, they don't appear, and their old links go to an empty page. These channels together had over two million followers and more than a billion views. YouTube had already stopped their ads earlier this year after finding they broke rules.

The company also makes creators reveal if their content has been significantly changed or made artificially to look real. YouTube's representative, Jack Malon, informed The Verge that after being temporarily stopped, these channels fixed their issues to get back into the YouTube Partner Program. But once they were earning money again, they went back to clearly breaking rules about spam and misleading information, which led to their removal from the site. Deadline stated that after YouTube stopped their ads, the channels added "fan trailer" and "parody" to their video names, and then they could earn money again. However, these words were removed in the months that followed, causing them to be banned for repeatedly breaking the rules.

Nikhil P. Chaudhari, the head of Screen Culture, told the news outlet that he hired over 10 editors to produce these fake videos made with AI. He reportedly tried to trick YouTube's system by uploading these trailers early and frequently changing and uploading new versions of the videos.