AI True Crime Is Here
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True crime channels have started using AI to invent fake crimes and present them as real, and nobody’s telling viewers.
Turns out there’s not enough real crime to keep up with how much true crime content people want, so some YouTube channels found a solution: making up the crimes entirely. I look at a 404 Media investigation into AI-generated true crime channels that invented victims, suspects, and entire scenarios, then dressed it up as a real case with zero disclosure. I also get into how Netflix’s own true crime docs are already using AI in ways you’ve probably missed, and why this whole genre’s ethics were shaky even before AI got involved.
None of the people in this video are real except me, probably.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:16 The True Crime Industry Has Run Out Of Real Crime
01:32 Watching A Fake AI True Crime Video
03:14 None Of It Was Real
05:02 The Creator Defends Faking It
06:17 The “Most Evil Woman” AI Hoax
06:54 Is Real True Crime Even Ethical
07:49 Netflix Is Already Using AI Too
09:33 The Money And Algorithm Problem
10:09 Disembodied Head Outro
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📝Written in collaboration with Geoff Haggerty – https://www.instagram.com/geofffhaggerty
🎥Edited by Jonny Wanzer
🔗Produced by Dave Heuff – Hooked Creators – https://www.hookedcreators.com/
💻Associate Producer – Jamie Lightfoot – https://www.instagram.com/jamisonlightfoot
💻Associate Producer – Veronica Bettan
#TrueCrime #AI #Comedy

@pureevilfnord
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
The "jokes" and jangling keys make this video pretty unwatchable. I'm tapping out 3 and a half minutes in. It's like you're trying so hard to entertain me, but I want to know about AI True Crime and don't need all the frankly boilerplate internet jokes and spinning wheels. It's obnoxious and kind of depressing and sad.
@WorkingMan-1990
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
1:07 I really wish that Ryan would stop putting his editor in the video. Ryan is funny 😂 and this guy sucks all the joy out of my life! I see and hear him and it is just the opposite of joy! Please please please stop putting him in the video… PLEASE!!!
I'm not sure if he's an editor or what. I just can't stand him.
@Cancun771
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
Yeah Jeff looks EXACTLY like the kind of SCUM to use an AIR FRYER! <spits>
@Sterski1
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
Peace and love, Ringo
@TheOriginalDyxon
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
The Disembodied Head sent me, and he seemed trustworthy…and legitimate.
@da-be-ju
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
Ryan, thank you for exposing this BS in an entertaining and healthy way. I mean it.
@AskanHelstroem
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
I like the term:
to inhume someone
@airidaskondrotas703
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
Wait, since when is cuddling a crime?
@G33ksl4y3r6
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
Jenny Tahlia is an Australian comedian
@greghurlbut7017
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
the most evil cuddler is actually Ryan Reynolds. I have multiple pictures PROVING that Ryan Reynolds has cuddled Blake Lively multiple times. Also, I'm pretty sure that he does not have anything to do with "Welcome to Wrexham"…totally AI generated, no such place as Wales.
@zerazukin
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
The lucy letby ai was so bad SO BAD and the doc was terrible too
And they also did it for a good one which makes me sad because it was a good doc
@TechInsightsDE
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
4:56 Bro made porn video titles lmao
@EvilTim1911
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
Hey Ryan, you're a fan of Nirvana huh? Name 100 Nirvana songs
@ChaosDesigned
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
Ryan went from making all the stuff by himself to now having a team of more than 2 people making the stuff for himself and somehow uploads less than before?
@skyesmusic6130
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
I love how he danced around words all video just for the "kitten" to blurt double homicide right at the end lmao
@troyevitt2437
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
YouTube is violating its own Terms Of Service by hosting this crap.
They specifically say you're not supposed to upload misleading, text and thumbnails
Also, starting in 2020 with Covid19 Denial, you're not supposed to post knowingly false information.
@samnelson2343
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
taking each other's lives in a permanent way.
there's the new term for marriage..
do you take. .?
@Tasty-the-money
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
Sometimes you can switch the position of words? There is a word for that technique…it's called German.
@BrokenHistoryX
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
Genny Talia…..bwahahaha
@Yog-slagunar
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
In that case, I guess ill do go wild and horrible crime in Denmark. its a pretty open market when it comes to horrible serial killing
@hoppareiter
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
The detective squinted as he looked over the gallons of blood spilled by the victims of the Air Fryer Menace. Exhaling the smoke from his cigar, he growled: "That's a nasty cuddle puddle."
@johnscott6984
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
AI on AI crime is tight!
@davideaston6944
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
@Also-Bort
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
Stop ruining remedial entertainment for stupid people please. I am the king of stupid people and I’m politely asking you to stop it
@NeuroSpicyGamer
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
A disembodied head sent me; he seems trustworthy. He seems legitimate.
@LordFarm
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
" I see you're wearing a Nirvana shirt. Name every level of enlightenment then".
@princessmaly
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
Wow. Fake crime? Shocked. And here I thought youtubers chasing trending topics were the PARAGON of ethics.
But seriously though I actually… well to be honest I kinda don't care but in a sense I DO care because I think this is an extremely interesting opportunity to fuck with stupid people by scaring the hell out of them. See there's this other guy on youtube who does this "fake crime" schtick, but as a bit for a fake podcast. Name's Chase Bridges, check him out it's dope I promise. So the idea is he invites people onto a "true crime" podcast and then at the end he shoves a metaphorical pie in their face by revealing it was just the plot of a Scooby Doo episode. And he's done this so many times by now he's actually had to mess with the formula to keep pranking his friends as they slowly become more aware of the format.
Now that's just good clean fun. But I like dirty fun. Fun that is not in any way disguised to be anything other than entertainment and is entirely up front aboot its fictional nature… but somehow still manages to fool stupid people anwyas. And the thing aboot scary stuff, like true crime, is that the "trueness" of it is the thing that makes it scary. There's something very different aboot watching a designated "horror movie" where it's a dramatized bunch of teenagers who you don't know and don't care aboot getting stabbed in ways you would have no way of ever being aware of, and hearing aboot the details of something terrifying that happened after the fact as if it was real and you're left to wonder what really happened.
Think of a Chills video or something like that. Or like a freaky conspiracy theory aboot how all toasters are shapeshifting aliens, or how the Earth is hollow and full of ghosts and it's REAL and you can PROVE it because look at this definitely real diary entry. That kinda stuff. Now take that genre, and use it as the format to tell the narrative of an ordinary horror movie. Like a true crime youtube documentary – and ONLY youtube can get away with this, as soon as a big company gets in on it people won't buy it anymore, it has to look "real" – aboot a series of grisly murders at a summer camp in the 80's… where the leading suspect was a little boy that drowned exactly 30 years ago to that very night. Y'know, trick people into buying into the reality of a thing, and then when they least expect it start throwing in crazy shit while their disbelief has already been suspended… and make them afraid that Jason Kreuger is real and actually going to hockey mask cuddle them.
Listen, all I'm saying is that no matter what any of us do, bad actors are going to do ethically gross nonsense. We can't stop that. But what we CAN do is starve those people of relevance by turning their shitty exploitative ideas into actually kind of cool art. So instead of having the un-reality of a fake crime feel weird and gross, you use the format to put on a show that's actually pretty cool, so at the end people will go "wow, that was so believable and scary" instead of "this is stupid and probably evil."
Soo… I'm thinking maybe 13 episodes for the first season… starting production costs are like 100,000$… what do you say, are you in?
@jedreynaudmusic
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
So a disembodied head brought me here… he seemed trustworthy
@LaLune117
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
What is this shirt you are wearing, Ryan? It looks like you took two different shirts and sewed them together
@zonesproductions
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
The Internet is not fun anymore 😢
@jillhagen
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
Wow, Ryan got Ringo Star to edit his videos?? A++
@jillhagen
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
A super legitimate floating head sent me!
@yasmynemcdonald310
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
Oh Jonny, 😏
He can never have enough channels.
@JeremySolo
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
TODAY DAES II MY BIRTHDAY NO ONE LOVE OIN LOVE MY BECAUSE ABE IS POORY
@blueskyla7978
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
I’m fairly certain Tom Selleck didn’t approve the use of his voice.
@IamKelt
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
If you can't beat them…..
@tysonlaplante3957
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
i use to say o'clock. but everyone hated it went back to am/pm,
@TheSonicShoe
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
Fake crimes, true cringe.
@gabrielcayton3261
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
They're doing the same thing with mountain climbing incidents… just making up incidents and deaths…
AI slop…
@davidr.8999
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
hyperbaton = Yoda speak
@CaptOrbit
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
Late at night, a bunch of us were hungry for a snack
We stopped at a nighter inn, and sat way in the back
We all ordered stuff to drink, some coffee, milk and cokes
Talked about some worldly things, and told some dirty jokes
We weren't causing trouble
But suddenly a man
Jumped up from his counter seat, and pointing with his hand
Said to us with narrow eyes, his voice was like a hit
"Sadness," he said, "is the mortar, between our happiness."
Then he turned and ran, but accidentally careened
And knocked over with a crash, a gumball machine
Gumballs spilled all over the sidewalk
Some rolled off the curb
Nobody seemed to care about that, nobody said a word
"What the heck was eating him?"
We wondered in the lull
This is not a true tale, but who needs truth if it's dull
"Oh, what the heck was eating him?" we wondered in the lull
This is not a true tale, but who needs truth if it's dull.
Williams, Mason. "The Exciting Accident." Handmade, Warner Bros. Records, 1970.
@tbolinger75
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
My phone happily chirped in with "Sure, I can help with that" after you asked for photos of Jenny Talia.
@DrinkingFountainSimulator
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
I have the same Nirvana shirt as you!
@andrescastillo7328
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
AI has taken over "true crime" this is just concerning, it won't take long for them to make biopics and docuseries' with AI 😲
@natemartin9354
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
Less Jeff, please. No, seriously. Please. Less Jeff. Here for Ryan… Not the editor.
@atheistcory4174
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 pm
Such a multi layered critique and rib tickling too