YouTube removes over 1,000 celebrity AI scam videos

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San Francisco. Google-owned YouTube has removed over 1,000 deepfake scam advertisement videos of celebrities from its platform.

YouTube said it is “investing heavily” in preventing AI celebrity scam ads.

Following a 404 Media investigation into such fake celebrity ads, YouTube removed more than 1,000 videos belonging to an ad group that used AI to promote Medicare scams by celebrities like Taylor Swift, Steve Harvey and Joe Rogan. Was.

Reports say that such videos have received nearly 200 million views, with both users and celebrities regularly complaining about them.

YouTube is aware that its platform is being used with AI-generated ads of celebrities and is working hard to stop such celebrity deepfakes.

YouTube’s action came after non-consensual deepfake porn of Taylor Swift went viral. In which one post received more than 45 million views and 24,000 reposts before being removed.

The post was live on the platform for about 17 hours before it was removed.

A report by 404 Media found that the photos came from a group on Telegram. Where users share explicit AI-generated pictures of women.

Users in the group also reportedly made fun of how Swift’s photos went viral on X.

According to the latest research from cybersecurity firm DeepTrace, about 96 percent of deepfakes are pornographic, and they almost always depict women.

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