YouTube will show labels on videos that use AI – 9to5Google

AI can be used for good, and for evil, and on YouTube the latter could mean posting videos that are misleading viewers into thinking they are real. To avoid those situations, YouTube is now requiring creators to mark videos that are made using AI, and will show labels to viewers. Announced in a blog post today, YouTube will, in the “coming months,” require that creators disclose the use of AI in a video which will result in a label being shown on videos that are “synthetic.” While it’s not totally clear right now where the line will be drawn on what videos will need to disclose the use of AI, it seems pretty broad. YouTube says it will need to be used on material that is “realistic” whether it is altered by AI or entirely synthetic. The disclosure will be shown both on full-length videos and Shorts. YouTube explains: To address this concern, over the coming months, we’ll introduce updates that inform viewers when the content they’re seeing is synthetic. Specifically, we’ll require creators to disclose when they’ve created altered or synthetic content that is realistic, including using AI tools. When creators upload content, we will have new options for
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