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YouTube cracks down on AI content that ‘realistically simulates’ deceased children or victims of crimes

YouTube is updating its harassment and cyberbullying policies to clamp down on content that "realistically simulates" deceased minors.

YouTube is updating its harassment and cyberbullying policies to clamp down on content that “realistically simulates” deceased minors or victims of deadly or violent events describing their death. In recent months, content creators have used AI to narrate numerous high-profile cases including the abduction and death of British two-year-old James Bulger, as reported by the Washington Post. There are also similar AI narrations about Madeleine McCann, a British three-year-old who disappeared from a resort, and Gabriel Fernández, an eight-year-old boy who was tortured and murdered by his mother and her boyfriend in California.

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