YouTube pulls 20 channels after Semafor's ghost creator expose

Paid actors + AI scripts = 45M YouTube views bashing Democrats. Meet the network behind it

Paid actors reading AI-written scripts helped one YouTube network log 45M+ views attacking Democrats. Here's how the operation actually worked.

YouTube pulls 20 channels after Semafor's ghost creator expose

YouTube has terminated 20 channels in a network that paid gig-economy actors $26 a video to read AI-generated scripts attacking Democratic politicians. The network reached 45 million views because putting a real face in front of an AI pipeline defeats every synthetic-media detector platforms have built. Enforcement came only after Semafor and Riddance AI published, […] This story continues at The Next Web

Semafor ai: YouTube Removes 20 Channels After Semafor AI

Until last week, an entire network of AI-generated news channels operated on YouTube in plain sight — fronted by real, paid human actors who gave synthetic content a trustworthy face. That arrangement has now collapsed. YouTube removed 20 channels after Semafor investigators traced the network and exposed how it hired genuine people to present deceptive, […] The post YouTube Removes 20 Channels After Semafor AI News Probe appeared first on Techn…

YouTube says it shut down 20 channels for violating its spam policy after a report alleging they used actors and AI-written scripts to push political clickbait (Max Tani/Semafor)

Max Tani / Semafor: YouTube says it shut down 20 channels for violating its spam policy after a report alleging they used actors and AI-written scripts to push political clickbait  —  YouTube removed videos linked to a network of AI-supercharged “ghost creators” after Semafor exposed a new online business seeking …