AI generated thumbnails on YouTube

[LazyPooky]

So there is this option to let YouTube create a thumbnail for you with AI - based on the title and content of you video. I did that for one LazyTown Episode (Little Sportacus) and it just happens to be my style of thumbnail making that I did more than 6 years ago, in January 2020, for my LazyTown videos on my YT channel. I know my created thumbnails were used on IMDB too so it's a possibility that AI took them from there. But not very original.



AI thumbnail (2026)


My thumbnail (2020)

[chuft]

LOL all AI is based on theft but that's pretty egregious.

[possessor]

So there is this option to let YouTube create a thumbnail for you with AI

just yuck

[BRBFBI]

I've been seeing similar AI thumbnails in Bado Innos's videos, but I didn't realize the generator was built into YouTube.

[Fairy-Possum]

I've been seeing this everywhere. I like to watch Elder Scrolls/Fallout stuff and so much of it has AI generated thumbnails, especially reuploaded streams. I avoid it like the bubonic plague but so few channels don't use AI that I've been left with a handful of channels that I rewatch over and over again. It's the same with LazyTown content. Although something I've noticed is that a lot of editing softwares have forced AI. So I wonder how many channels use that, but not AI thumbnails.