📌 TOPINDIATOURS Update ai: YouTube Removes Disturbing AI Slop YouTube Channel Fill

A disturbing YouTube channel was dedicated entirely to showing AI-generated videos of women being shot in the head, 404 Media reports.

Named “Woman Shot AI,” the channel racked up more than 175,000 views since starting on June 20, 2025, the outlet’s investigation found. After 404 sent YouTube a request for comment, the channel was finally taken down.

It left behind a grisly legacy. The veritable snuff film hub uploaded 27 videos and gained a following of nearly 1,200 subscribers — a small but alarming following, as you’ll see later.

The videos all adhered to a general formula, according to 404: a photo-realistic depiction of a woman begging for her life while she was being held at gunpoint by a man who loomed over her in the foreground. 

Some showed video game characters, like a clip titled “Lara Croft Shot in Breast – AI Compilations.” Others focused on “Captured Girls” or “Japanese Schoolgirls.” One even showed Russian soldiers gunning down crying Ukrainian women with flags on their chest.

At least one video was labeled “extreme” by its creator: it showed the “Street Fighter” video game character Mai Shiranui’s head exploding after being shot, which was clearly visible in the thumbnail, according to a 404 screenshot.

The content was apparently in demand. 404 found that the channel owner posted polls asking subscribers to vote on the “victims in the next video,” floating options like “Japanese/Chinese,” and using the N-word. 

AI slop has become a persistent problem on social media platforms, especially YouTube, where monetizing your content is straightforward and where there’s few limitations on the format of video you can post. 

Everything from bite-sized clips to hours-long playlists are fair game. Lengthy music playlists made of AI-generated songs and advertised with “epic”-looking AI art have become so prevalent that human creators are trying to stick out by putting “No AI” front and center in their video titles.

Equally pernicious is the rise of “boring history” and “sleepy” informational videos, which aim to gently lull their listeners to sleep with ostensibly educational content before they can realize that what they’re watching is complete nonsense. (Many of these are also hours in length, uploaded with unbelievable frequency.)

It’s striking, though, to see AI slop this luridly graphic. As distasteful as we might find AI-generated content, it’s not necessarily spam or against the rules. But there’s no gray area with a channel called “Woman Shot AI,” which seems to be powered by some combination of extreme misogyny and disturbing fetishes.

YouTube took down the channel for violating its Terms of Service, a spokesperson told 404. And as it turned out, according to the spokesperson, it was specifically for running the channel after a previous ban.

The channel was also a nose-to-tail Google operation. In addition to being hosted on the tech giant’s YouTube, watermarks show that all the videos were made with Veo 3, Google’s new text-to-video AI tool known for its ability to generate convincing audio, including dialogue. Using the tool, however, was apparently burning a hole in the “Woman Shot AI” owner’s wallet.

“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 community post on YouTube.

To circumvent video generation limits, the owner said he’d made ten different Veo accounts. “I have to spend quite a lot of money just to have fun,” they wrote.

The fact that the owner got away with generating so many of these graphic videos reflects horribly on Veo’s safeguards, which should’ve prevented this stuff from being made. But, like virtually all generative AI tools, the tech frequently defies its own guardrails, and clever users can easily sidestep them with tricks as simple as inserting typos into their prompt.

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

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📌 TOPINDIATOURS Update ai: World’s largest hydrogen fuel cell power plant to power

South Korea has officially broken ground on the world’s largest hydrogen fuel cell power plant, which is expected to generate enough clean electricity to power around 270,000 households annually.

Located in Gyeongju, in the North Gyeongsang province, the 108-megawatt (MW) Gangdong Hydrogen Fuel Cell Power Generation Project is set to become fully operational by 2028.

Gyeongju City Council representatives stated that the plant will deliver baseload electricity to the national grid and catalyze regional industrial growth.

The project, backed by a total investment of USD 580.7 million, is being delivered through the Regional Revitalization Investment Fund. The fund combines contributions from the government, local authorities, and private sector investors.

It has previously supported projects like the Jeonnam LNG Terminal and Danyang Tourism Complex. “Energy is the rice of the future industry,” Lee Cheol-woo, North Gyeongsang governor, revealed, highlighting the project’s importance.

A hydrogen revolution

Once fully operational, the new facility will surpass the 79-megawatt Shin Incheon Vision Dream plant, designed to supply green electricity to around 250,000 households and provide heating for an additional 44,000 homes.

Capable of powering 270,000 households per year, the Gangdong Hydrogen Fuel Cell plant is projected to play a critical role in meeting the country’s renewable energy goals and position Gyeongju as a strategic energy and industrial hub.

The novel facility will use grey hydrogen, which is the most widely produced type of hydrogen at the moment. It will be produced on-site from natural gas, to generate electricity through high-efficiency fuel cells.

While green hydrogen remains the long-term goal, officials see this project as a bridge technology that will stabilize the grid and accelerate the country’s shift away from fossil fuels.

The plant has secured a 20-year renewable energy certificate (REC) contract to ensure financial viability, providing consistent revenue through South Korea’s energy credit market.

Investment in green energy

According to Lee Cheol-woo, private capital plays a significant role in the project’s structure. This financial engineering is closely watched as a model for future clean energy infrastructure across the region.

The governor believes that the plant will transform the region, while at the same time strengthening local capacity to plan and implement essential investment projects independently.

“This Gangdong hydrogen fuel cell power generation project was also promoted as an extension of the private investment and energy transformation policy, and will be the starting point for connecting energy policy with advanced industry investment policy,” Cheol-woo explained.

Estimates suggest that the facility will become operational by March 2028, create about 1,200 jobs, and generate more than USD 52 million in corporate tax revenue.

It is also forecasted to help attract power-intensive industries such as AI data centers, smart farms, as well as advanced manufacturing to the area.

“I will pay special attention to subsequent investment projects because it is important not only to build one power plant simply, but also to link the region’s abundant power sources to the future industrial investment,” Cheol-woo said.

🔗 Sumber: interestingengineering.com