The channel’s creator claimed he was trying to make viewers reflect on their obsession with lurid true crime. A popular “true crime” YouTube channel has been pulling in millions of views with videos about gruesome murders. As it turns out, None of them are real.

The YouTube channel True Crime Case Files has managed to rack up millions of views by spitting out long, drawn out yarns of murder and mayhem that are complete and utter bullshit. Some of the channel’s videos have only a few hundred views. Others, however, have tens or even hundreds of thousands.

A viral YouTube channel that claimed to document shocking true crime cases was actually fabricating invented stories using artificial intelligence.