YouTube removes horrific AI channel depicting women being murdered

YouTube removed a disturbing channel called “Woman Shot AI” that featured AI-generated videos depicting women being murdered, following an investigation by 404 Media, a technology news outlet. The channel accumulated over 175,000 views and nearly 1,200 subscribers since launching in June 2025, highlighting serious gaps in content moderation and AI tool safeguards.

What you should know: The channel exclusively featured graphic AI-generated content showing women being shot, with videos following a consistent formula of photo-realistic depictions of women begging for their lives while held at gunpoint.

• The channel uploaded 27 videos with titles like “Lara Croft Shot in Breast – AI Compilations” and “Japanese Schoolgirls,” some featuring video game characters and others depicting real-world scenarios including Russian soldiers killing Ukrainian women.
• At least one video was labeled “extreme” by its creator, showing a character’s head exploding after being shot, which was clearly visible in the thumbnail.
• The channel owner posted polls asking subscribers to vote on “victims in the next video,” using racist language and floating demographic options.

The big picture: This represents an alarming intersection of AI-generated content, extreme misogyny, and disturbing fetishes that managed to evade platform safeguards for months.

• YouTube ultimately removed the channel for violating Terms of Service, specifically for operating after a previous ban rather than for the graphic content itself.
• All videos were created using Google’s Veo 3 text-to-video AI tool, making this entirely a Google ecosystem operation from content creation to hosting.

Key details: The channel owner spent significant money to circumvent AI generation limits and create this content.

• “The AI I use is paid, per account I have to spend around 300 dollars per month, even though 1 account can only generate 8-second videos 3 times,” the owner complained in a public YouTube post.
• To bypass video generation limits, the owner created ten different Veo accounts, writing “I have to spend quite a lot of money just to have fun.”

Why this matters: The incident exposes critical failures in both platform moderation and AI tool safeguards, demonstrating how users can exploit generative AI for harmful content.

• The fact that Veo generated such graphic content reflects poorly on Google’s safeguards, which should have prevented this material from being created.
• Like virtually all generative AI tools, the technology frequently defies its own guardrails, with users easily sidestepping restrictions through simple tricks like inserting typos into prompts.

What they’re saying: Google acknowledged the policy violations while defending its AI tools’ design.

• “Our Gen AI tools are built to follow the prompts a user provides,” a Google spokesperson told 404 Media. “We have clear policies around their use that we work to enforce, and the tools continually get better at reflecting these policies.”

Broader context: This incident occurs amid growing concerns about AI-generated “slop” flooding social media platforms, particularly YouTube where content monetization is straightforward.

• AI-generated music playlists and “boring history” videos have become so prevalent that human creators now prominently label their content as “No AI” to distinguish themselves.
• However, this case represents a particularly disturbing evolution beyond typical AI spam into content that combines extreme violence and misogyny.