In a bizarre performance art project-turned-cash cow, a YouTuber profited from a "true crime" channel that featured completely fake stories and AI-generated visuals. The creator of the now-defunct "True Crime Case Files" YouTube channel admitted in interviews with 404 Media that he intentionally dialed up the prurient interest on videos with monetized titles like "Coach Gives Cheerleader HIV after Secret Affair, Leading to Pregnancy." According to Paul, the pseudonum given to the creator by 404 to protect his identity, the videos scripts were half generated by OpenAI's ChatGPT and half written by him, and the visuals came from an AI image generator […]