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Real GTA 6 Leaks Are Hard To Spot In 2026 Due To All The AI Fakes
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Welcome back to Kotaku’s semi-regular Grand Theft Auto 6 column that is still called Stealing Cars because I can’t come up with a better name. Today, we’re looking at two different projects aiming to bring Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories to the PC, why you can’t always trust a Rockstar Games trailer, and how AI-generated GTA 6 slop is making it harder to find the real leaks.
Since August 18, a number of GTA 6 gameplay leaks have hit the internet courtesy of a person or group known only as Cyberleek. Rockstar has remained radio-silent since the leaks began, and the clips have spread like wildfire online, even as Take-Two aggressively rips them from places like Twitter and Reddit. However, if you go searching around Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube, you’re just as likely to encounter AI slop as you are genuine leaks.
The worst offender right now seems to be Twitter. Searching the site for “GTA 6 leaks” returned a mix of actual leaks and plenty of old AI-generated crap claiming to show leaked GTA gameplay. Some of these include a video of Lucia walking around a theme park and another showing Jason playing basketball. That last one might be extremely confusing for folks who aren’t super plugged-in to the ongoing GTA 6 news cycle. They hear about a new GTA 6 leak showing basketball, check Twitter for the video, and the second clip that shows up is AI slop.
Scene, physics, and player movement while practicing basketball. pic.twitter.com/XODSsNabnC
Over on Facebook, things aren’t as bad, though I still found quite a bit of GTA 6 AI slop being shared as legitimate leaks. However, a lot of these posts weren’t doing nearly as well as the AI slop on Twitter, and the comments seemed to identify that the content was fake. Over on YouTube, most of the big and small GTA channels are covering the leaks, but using AI-generated gameplay clips instead of the real leaks in order to avoid getting in trouble, though not all channels make it clear what is AI, what’s from trailers, and what’s from older GTA games.
GTA 6 NEW LEAK FROM CYBERLEEK pic.twitter.com/Qn3y6LRwIg
— Global Social News (@GlobalSociaNews) August 19, 2026
I have to imagine that for Rockstar devs, this whole situation is infuriating. Some of this AI-generated GTA 6 gameplay looks pretty convincing at a quick glance or on a small phone screen. However, the features, locations, and animations being shown in these clips are bullshit. Yet there are likely people out there who, aware of the leaks, are watching these AI clips and assuming they, too, are legit GTA 6 leaks. If the AI is overpromising features that won’t be in GTA 6, that could lead to all sorts of angry debates about cut content that never existed in the first place.
Of course, a lot of this will likely go away once August 27 rolls around and Rockstar Games finally shows us official gameplay of Grand Theft Auto 6 via its big Netflix extended look special. But between now and then, expect a lot more slop and bullshit to spread across the web as people desperate for gameplay stumble upon these fake leaks without realizing it.