Grand Theft Auto 6’s latest delay will see it launch around a year from now. This isn’t the first delay that the game has seen, but this time the unfortunate news didn’t come with a new trailer to keep us hyped. With almost no new information to go on, the copium is hitting fans a bit harder. It seems someone decided to take advantage of that by AI-generating some leaked footage.
As reported by IGN, the ZapActu GTA6 Twitter account shared a brief video of what looked like GTA 6 gameplay. Of course, the now deleted video was AI generated, but it was good enough to garner around 8 million views, despite the community notes warning that it was made using AI. This understandably caused major backlash by fans starved of any real GTA 6 news, causing the creator to delete everything and admit it was AI.
GTA 6 AI-Generated Leak Creator Says It Was An Experiment
The video in question showed brief footage of Lucia walking in the rain. Despite the community notes mentioning that it was an AI-generated video, it went viral and garnered around 8 million views in a day. Unfortunately, a lot of the viewers even thought it was a legitimate leak at first. Understandably, this created quite the furore in ZapActu GTA6’s Discord channel.
This caused them to remove the video and admit that it was AI. “I have NO real leaked information about GTA 6,” they said. “Everything you saw was entirely generated by AI. The goal was to show how incredibly easy it is in 2025 to fool people with fake ‘leaks,’ they said on social media.
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In a separate statement to IGN, ZapActu said the video was created to “observe people’s reactions and to demonstrate how easy it has become in 2025 to blur the line between reality and AI-generated content.” They apologized “to anyone who felt frustrated, disappointed, or misled by these posts.”
It seems ZapActu just didn’t realise how hungry fans would react to a potential GTA 6 leak.
