{"id":2063923,"date":"2026-07-27T13:57:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T10:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2063923"},"modified":"2026-07-27T13:57:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T10:57:55","slug":"as-grand-theft-auto-6-hopefuls-grow-anxious-for-a-gameplay-trailer-ai-gta6-slop-is-getting-millions-of-views-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2063923","title":{"rendered":"As Grand Theft Auto 6 hopefuls grow anxious for a gameplay trailer, AI GTA6 slop is getting millions of views on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"news\" data-article-group=\"news\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Home<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/news\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      News<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/grand-theft-auto-vi\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Grand Theft Auto VI<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_details\" id=\"main-content\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">As Grand Theft Auto 6 hopefuls grow anxious for a gameplay trailer, AI GTA6 slop is getting millions of views on social media<\/h1>\n<p class=\"strapline\">Taking liberties (city).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_asset\">\n<figure class=\"headline_image_wrapper\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"headline_image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/(567)-Grand-Theft-Auto-VI-Trailer-2-00-00-20_vnMrh8W.png?width=570&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;dpr=3&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Grand Theft Auto 6 shirtless man from trailer 2.\" loading=\"eager\" data-uri=\"(567)-Grand-Theft-Auto-VI-Trailer-2-00-00-20_vnMrh8W.png\" data-lightbox width=\"570\" height=\"321\"><figcaption>\n          <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Rockstar Games<\/cite><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"avatar\">\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Connor Makar avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/tAtwiaBo_400x400.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"374\" height=\"374\"><\/p>\n<p>  <img alt=\"Connor Makar avatar\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"tAtwiaBo_400x400.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"374\" height=\"374\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"byline\">\n                  <span class=\"article_type\" data-slug=\"news\"><br \/>\n                    News<br \/>\n                  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/authors\/connor-makar\">Connor Makar<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"job_title\"><br \/>\n                      Staff Writer<br \/>\n                    <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"published_at\">\nPublished on <time datetime=\"2026-07-27T13:57:55+00:00\">July 27, 2026<\/time>              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mypop-header-wrapper\">\n<p><button class=\"mypop-button button wide\" data-state=\"follow\" data-type=\"tag\" data-uuid=\"7685df9e-22e2-4b0e-a893-03c1781df5f1\" data-name=\"Grand Theft Auto VI\" data-follow-text=\"Follow Grand Theft Auto VI\" data-unfollow-text=\"Following Grand Theft Auto VI\" data-aria-follow-text=\"Follow Grand Theft Auto VI\" data-aria-unfollow-text=\"Following Grand Theft Auto VI\" data-popup=\"true\" data-force-login=\"true\" aria-label=\"Follow Grand Theft Auto VI\" title=\"Follow Grand Theft Auto VI\"><br \/>\n  Follow Grand Theft Auto VI<br \/>\n<\/button>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/gta-6-everything-we-know-so-far-9357\">Grand Theft Auto 6<\/a> inches towards its November release date and people grow anxious for a proper gameplay trailer, GTA6 AI slop is raking in millions of views on social media.<\/p>\n<p>These AI-generated videos are, in some cases, garnering millions of views on apps like Instagram and Tiktok. Though many eyes may be drawn to these hastily cobbled-together representations of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/companies\/rockstar-games\">Rockstar Games<\/a>&#8216; blockbuster, the reaction they&#8217;re receiving is anything but glowing.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"GTA 6 (Grand Theft Auto 6) - Official Trailer 2\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sQEGy86F2gE?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/sQEGy86F2gE\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">GTA 6 (Grand Theft Auto 6) &#8211; Official Trailer 2<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Here&#8217;s the second trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sQEGy86F2gE\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Starting with Instagram, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DaMyhuKReep\/\">this AI-generated video from Nexifygaming<\/a> shows a woman in a white dress living it large on the back of a yacht. It has 1.1m views, with its creator writing: &#8220;The ocean, yacht interiors, character details &amp; cinematic atmosphere look ABSOLUTELY REAL. Next-gen realism is on another level!&#8221; The words &#8220;Vige city&#8221; are viewable below the map, and at the bottom the prompt &#8220;press [Button] to drink chamchnapane&#8221; are clearly visible. The waiter and the rich lady on the boat share the same voice.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Actual interaction with this post doesn&#8217;t appear to be as high as the views would indicate, and they aren&#8217;t overly positive. The most liked comment comes from DrPenguin1214, who simply wrote &#8220;AI&#8221; in response. Others are simple responses like &#8220;good&#8221; or &#8220;It&#8217;s AI but it could possibly be like this \ud83d\ude4c &#8220;. Others are outwardly against the use of AI, like number.no4 who wrote: &#8220;chamchsnapane\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02&#8221;. Multiple &#8220;AI detected&#8221; gifs have been hidden either by the author of the post or due to automatic spam detection.<\/p>\n<p>There are many more examples of posts just like this. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DbGYGHJxLe3\/\">Take this AI-generated GTA6 surfing video<\/a>, again on Instagram, with 1.2m views and roughly 33k likes. It shows the player character briefly ride the waves across the beach, before doing a trick off the spin of another surfer. Its most liked reply simply states: &#8220;GTA 6 but from Temu&#8221;.  Or take this video of a GTA6 entering a car on Tiktok, with 4.4m views and around 120k likes. Again, not much in the place of positivity in the comments, with popular retorts including &#8220;holy AI&#8221;, &#8220;If it turns out like this I&#8217;m suing&#8221;, and &#8220;love how the car changes&#8221;. That last comment referencing the feature vehicle morphing from an El Cameo into a square body track as the AI struggled with perspective changes.<\/p>\n<p>Other AI videos turning up on people&#8217;s feeds veer into the absurd. Like this Instagram post showing a hand-to-hand brawl on the back of a moving plane. The plane, of course, is flying backwards &#8211; it&#8217;s propellers being the wrong way round. The video clearly shows the aerial brawl taking place above the ocean, while the mini-map features nothing but city streets. Again, the comments are full to bursting with anti-AI messages and laughing emotes.<\/p>\n<p>To Rockstar Games&#8217; credit, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gtasix_\/status\/2080676010501001373\">some viral AI-generated posts on X are being DMCA stuck<\/a>. This move has been gone down well with GTA hopefuls, who have grown annoyed by the deluge of such videos. X user DustyDroid shared their perspective, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/_DustyDroid_\/status\/2080688313736774000\">writing<\/a>: &#8220;Good they are stupid as hell along with  the tools who push that ai garbage&#8221;, while others speculate it&#8217;s because <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JerichoGTA\/status\/2080680710688420305\">these AI videos looked a little too close to the actual game<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"2\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>So why are these videos being made, and why are they bringing in so many views despite a general anti-AI sentiment. Well, putting aside the fact AI-slop is quick and easy to make, these videos are filling a ferocious void in GTA fans&#8217; hearts that only a proper gameplay video can fill.<\/p>\n<p>If you take a quick look at community hubs for Grand Theft Auto 6 &#8211; like the GTA6 Reddit, you&#8217;ll see post-after-post about the game&#8217;s marketing. Or, in the eyes of some, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/GTA6\/comments\/1v7h4ix\/grand_theft_auto_marketing_is_horrible\/\">the lack thereof<\/a>. While many are content to sit back and wait patiently, there&#8217;s a real appetite for more GTA footage.<\/p>\n<p>Whether this AI slopathon will increase in intensity as the weeks pass and we inch closer to Grand Theft Auto 6&#8217;s release date is anyone&#8217;s guess. Perhaps the game will be an industry trend-setter for good and for bad, and these sorts of social media AI videos will become a permanent part of AAA game&#8217;s pre-launch hype cycle. Or perhaps, negative sentiment will push them away from people&#8217;s social media feeds altogether. One can hope.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"preferred-source\" data-component=\"preferred-source\">\nLove Eurogamer.net? Make us a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\">Preferred Source on Google<\/a> and catch more of our coverage in your feeds.  <\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/gta-6-everything-we-know-so-far-9357\">Grand Theft Auto 6<\/a> inches towards its November release date and people grow anxious for a proper gameplay trailer, GTA6 AI slop is raking in millions of views on social media.<\/p>\n<p>These AI-generated videos are, in some cases, garnering millions of views on apps like Instagram and Tiktok. Though many eyes may be drawn to these hastily cobbled-together representations of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/companies\/rockstar-games\">Rockstar Games<\/a>&#8216; blockbuster, the reaction they&#8217;re receiving is anything but glowing.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"GTA 6 (Grand Theft Auto 6) - Official Trailer 2\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sQEGy86F2gE?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/sQEGy86F2gE\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">GTA 6 (Grand Theft Auto 6) &#8211; Official Trailer 2<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Here&#8217;s the second trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sQEGy86F2gE\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Starting with Instagram, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DaMyhuKReep\/\">this AI-generated video from Nexifygaming<\/a> shows a woman in a white dress living it large on the back of a yacht. It has 1.1m views, with its creator writing: &#8220;The ocean, yacht interiors, character details &amp; cinematic atmosphere look ABSOLUTELY REAL. Next-gen realism is on another level!&#8221; The words &#8220;Vige city&#8221; are viewable below the map, and at the bottom the prompt &#8220;press [Button] to drink chamchnapane&#8221; are clearly visible. The waiter and the rich lady on the boat share the same voice.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Actual interaction with this post doesn&#8217;t appear to be as high as the views would indicate, and they aren&#8217;t overly positive. The most liked comment comes from DrPenguin1214, who simply wrote &#8220;AI&#8221; in response. Others are simple responses like &#8220;good&#8221; or &#8220;It&#8217;s AI but it could possibly be like this \ud83d\ude4c &#8220;. Others are outwardly against the use of AI, like number.no4 who wrote: &#8220;chamchsnapane\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02&#8221;. Multiple &#8220;AI detected&#8221; gifs have been hidden either by the author of the post or due to automatic spam detection.<\/p>\n<p>There are many more examples of posts just like this. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DbGYGHJxLe3\/\">Take this AI-generated GTA6 surfing video<\/a>, again on Instagram, with 1.2m views and roughly 33k likes. It shows the player character briefly ride the waves across the beach, before doing a trick off the spin of another surfer. Its most liked reply simply states: &#8220;GTA 6 but from Temu&#8221;.  Or take this video of a GTA6 entering a car on Tiktok, with 4.4m views and around 120k likes. Again, not much in the place of positivity in the comments, with popular retorts including &#8220;holy AI&#8221;, &#8220;If it turns out like this I&#8217;m suing&#8221;, and &#8220;love how the car changes&#8221;. That last comment referencing the feature vehicle morphing from an El Cameo into a square body track as the AI struggled with perspective changes.<\/p>\n<p>Other AI videos turning up on people&#8217;s feeds veer into the absurd. Like this Instagram post showing a hand-to-hand brawl on the back of a moving plane. The plane, of course, is flying backwards &#8211; it&#8217;s propellers being the wrong way round. The video clearly shows the aerial brawl taking place above the ocean, while the mini-map features nothing but city streets. Again, the comments are full to bursting with anti-AI messages and laughing emotes.<\/p>\n<p>To Rockstar Games&#8217; credit, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gtasix_\/status\/2080676010501001373\">some viral AI-generated posts on X are being DMCA stuck<\/a>. This move has been gone down well with GTA hopefuls, who have grown annoyed by the deluge of such videos. X user DustyDroid shared their perspective, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/_DustyDroid_\/status\/2080688313736774000\">writing<\/a>: &#8220;Good they are stupid as hell along with  the tools who push that ai garbage&#8221;, while others speculate it&#8217;s because <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JerichoGTA\/status\/2080680710688420305\">these AI videos looked a little too close to the actual game<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"2\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>So why are these videos being made, and why are they bringing in so many views despite a general anti-AI sentiment. Well, putting aside the fact AI-slop is quick and easy to make, these videos are filling a ferocious void in GTA fans&#8217; hearts that only a proper gameplay video can fill.<\/p>\n<p>If you take a quick look at community hubs for Grand Theft Auto 6 &#8211; like the GTA6 Reddit, you&#8217;ll see post-after-post about the game&#8217;s marketing. Or, in the eyes of some, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/GTA6\/comments\/1v7h4ix\/grand_theft_auto_marketing_is_horrible\/\">the lack thereof<\/a>. While many are content to sit back and wait patiently, there&#8217;s a real appetite for more GTA footage.<\/p>\n<p>Whether this AI slopathon will increase in intensity as the weeks pass and we inch closer to Grand Theft Auto 6&#8217;s release date is anyone&#8217;s guess. Perhaps the game will be an industry trend-setter for good and for bad, and these sorts of social media AI videos will become a permanent part of AAA game&#8217;s pre-launch hype cycle. Or perhaps, negative sentiment will push them away from people&#8217;s social media feeds altogether. One can hope.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home News Grand Theft Auto VI As Grand Theft Auto 6 hopefuls grow anxious for a gameplay trailer, AI GTA6 slop is getting millions of views on social media Taking liberties (city). 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