YouTube's AI Misinformation Travels Fastest as Entertainment

YouTube's content policies draw a line at synthetic depictions of real people and AI-altered footage — but the videos currently circulating stay just inside that boundary while doing identical epistemic damage. Johnny Dang's name attached to fraud allegations ^[3], a girl presented as seven-and-a-half feet tall ^[1], a filter described as stolen and non-human : none of these necessarily trigger automated disclosure requirements, because the harm is in the narrative frame, not the pixel-level manipulation. A platform post warning that illustrates how the credibility…