YouTube will automatically detect and label AI-generated videos with greater visibility
YouTube is introducing automatic labels for AI-generated videos while redesigning those labels to make them more visible. This update aims to help viewers better identify when content they watch includes material generated or altered using artificial intelligence.
Following these changes, creators must now disclose if their uploads contain realistic or meaningfully AI-modified content. The new “AI use” setting is available in YouTube Studio on both desktop and mobile. Once enabled by a creator, YouTube will display a label informing viewers if the video is AI-generated or altered.
YouTube clarifies that AI-generated content includes material fully or partially produced using artificial intelligence audio, video, or image tools. Realistic outcomes or meaningful edits require disclosure, whereas minor or non-realistic AI adjustments do not.
Building on these labeling rules, AI-generated content that appears photorealistic will show a label directly on the video player. For content that is animated or not photorealistic, viewers will see the label in the expanded description. YouTube will also apply labels automatically to content made with its generative tools, material with C2PA metadata, or any content its internal systems detect as AI-generated or altered.
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- Disclosing use of GenAI contentYouTube • Official source
- YouTube is putting AI labels where you’ll actually see themThe Verge
- YouTube will now automatically label AI videosTechCrunch
- YouTube Now Automatically Applies More Visible Labels on AI-Generated VideosThurrott
- YouTube hardens AI policy but it includes a big exceptionMashable
- YouTube Will Automatically Detect And Label AI-Generated VideosEngadget
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Finally YouTube is doing something right. There's too many AI generated shorts and videos clogging up my feed. I want human created videos, not AI slop
But does AI content create a huge impact on the users?
It does a lot especially for old users who can't distinguish b/w whats real and whats not & AI slop pollutes YT also whether the video is made using it or images from AI are used in videos, they reduce the quality of the content.
Of course an Indian would say that.
Yeah it does. I want content that has actual, real effort put into it. Tutorials are actually largely unusable because it's Just AI slop, and largely not useful at all.
YouTube has gone downhill ever since they introduced shorts and unrelated search results like People also watched etc. #MakeYouTubeGreatAgain
Shorts are very good esp if you get the right recommendations. Some shorts creators also do long form videos and use shorts as nice recaps or incentives to watch the full videos, or just for fun. I dont think it ruined things at all. Quite the opposite actually...
@xdillfrescott Be serious. Shorts are mostly brain rot nonsense made for people with the attention span of a goldfish. I've been using a browser extension to block them since one became available. As a matter of fact, I have four different extensions installed in an attempt to make Screwtoob less infuriating to use. Luckily, one also blocks the worthless, unrelated search results.
@guck_foogle I am being serious the shorts I get recommended are usually pretty quality.
@xdillfrescott If you say so. Most of the ones I saw, when I still saw them, were the same type of "quality" as items for sale on Temu, Aliexpress, and Amazon.
I mean ill get the occasional stupid one but usually if you skip past it, dislike it or even go as far as clicking the i dont want to see this again button it eventually lowers the amount of ones you dont like. But of course its not perfect
Screwtoob really doesn't give a shit what YOU want to see. In my experience, clicking the "don't show me this type of video again or videos by this creator" buttons did little to nothing. I still got a bunch of garbage content, and after a short period of time, from the same creators I don't like..... again. That's why I went searching for extensions to block what I don't want to see. And so far, they do work perfect. Also, when it comes to the type of videos they show you, the dislike button is unrelated and has no effect at all.