{"id":218471,"date":"2025-06-27T11:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/218471\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T11:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:25:09","slug":"mrbeast-removes-ai-youtube-thumbnail-tool-after-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/218471\/","title":{"rendered":"MrBeast removes AI YouTube thumbnail tool after backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"

When he launched the AI thumbnail tool last week, MrBeast said, he “thought people were going to be pretty excited about it”.<\/p>\n

The small preview pictures are a key part of any YouTuber’s strategy, and are used to catch the eye of potential viewers as they scroll through a sea of content.<\/p>\n

Mr Beast’s tool was advertised as “taking the guesswork out” of designing eye-catching images for an $80 (\u00a358) per month subscription.<\/p>\n

It gave users the option to insert themselves into existing thumbnails and recreate the work of other creators.<\/p>\n

Generative AI – or GenAI – tools such as this are trained on mountains of exisiting data, which are then used to create outputs in response to user prompts.<\/p>\n

There are several current court cases examining accusations of copyright theft <\/a>against companies that make AI models.<\/p>\n

PointCrow, real name Eric Morino, accused MrBeast of making “something that can steal… hard work without a thought” and alleged that the AI model was “clearly trained on all our thumbnails and uses them without any creator’s permission”.<\/p>\n

While the US streamer said the intention of making content creation more accessible was a “great idea”, the tool “fundamentally hurts creators as a whole”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When he launched the AI thumbnail tool last week, MrBeast said, he “thought people were going to be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-218471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114755084143180708","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}