Content warning: This article contains descriptions and images of AI-generated graphic violence.
YouTube removed a channel that was dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being shot in the head following 404 Media’s request for comment. The videos were clearly generated with Google’s new AI video generator tool, Veo, according to a watermark included in the bottom right corner of the videos.
The channel, named Woman Shot A.I, started on June 20, 2025. It posted 27 videos, had over 1,000 subscribers, and had more than 175,000 views, according to the channel’s publicly available data.
All the videos posted by the channel follow the exact same formula. The nearly photo-realistic videos show a woman begging for her life while a man with a gun looms over her. Then he shoots her. Some videos have different themes, like compilations of video game characters like Lara Croft being shot, “Japanese Schoolgirls Shot in Breast,” “Sexy HouseWife Shot in Breast,” “Female Reporter Tragic End,” and Russian soldiers shooting women with Ukrainian flags on their chest.
I wasn’t able to confirm if YouTube was running ads in videos posted by this channel, but the person behind the channel did pay to generate these videos with Google’s Veo, and complained about the cost.
“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 channel’s owner wrote in a public post on YouTube. “So, imagine how many times I generate a video once I upload, I just want to say that every time I upload a compilation consisting of several 8-second clips, it’s not enough for just 1 account.”
Woman Shot A.I’s owner claimed they have 10 accounts. “I have to spend quite a lot of money just to have fun,” they said.
Shot A.I also posted polls asking subscribers to vote who “you want to be the victims in the next video.” The options were “Japanese/Chinese,” White Caucasian (american,british,italian,etc),” Southeast Asian (thai,filipine,indonesian,etc),” and the N-word.
YouTube removed the channel after 404 Media reached out for comment for this story. A YouTube spokesperson said that it terminated the channel for violating its Terms of Service, and specifically for operating the YouTube channel following a previous termination, meaning This is not the first time YouTube has removed a channel operated by whoever was behind Woman Shot A.I.
In theory Veo should not allow users to generate videos of people being murdered, but the AI video generator’s guardrails clearly didn’t work in this case. Guardrails for generative AI tools including AI video generators often fail, and there are entire communities dedicated to circumventing them.
“[O]ur Gen AI tools are built to follow the prompts a user provides,” Google’s spokesperson said. “We have clear policies around their use that we work to enforce, and the tools continually get better at reflecting these policies.”
In July, YouTube said that it would start taking action against “mass-produced” AI-generated slop channels. However, as our recent story about AI-generated “boring history” videos show, YouTube’s enforcement is still far from perfect.
