YouTube removed an AI-generated channel impersonating Harvard Professor Avi Loeb, which spread false videos about the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, following Loeb’s direct complaint and media coverage.

YouTube has removed an AI-generated 3I/ATLAS channel as part of its effort to curb misinformation, following concerns over misleading space-related content.

The image was taken when the exocomet was nearly 178 million miles away from Earth. In its blog describing the new picture, NASA remarked, Because the object comes from outside our solar system, it is just passing through—so we use all the tools at our disposal to observe it before it disappears back into the cosmic dark.

A YouTube channel called "Dr. Avi Loeb" is impersonating the Harvard astronomer by using AI tools to clone both his likeness and voice.

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb says 3I/ATLAS may “contain something else,” noting its anti-tail flips without reacting to solar radiation