YouTube will now automatically label AI videos
Key takeaways
- As AI video models become more powerful, You Tube is no longer solely relying on creators to label their AI videos it will now automatically label videos on their behalf.
- You Tube will also be making its AI labels more prominent, so they re easier to spot across both long-form videos and You Tube Shorts.
- Videos that obviously depicted some sort of animated or imaginative scenario like a unicorn prancing through a fantastical world did not have to be labeled.
Why this matters: a development in AI with implications for how people work, create, and decide.
As AI video models become more powerful, You Tube is no longer solely relying on creators to label their AI videos it will now automatically label videos on their behalf. The company announced on Wednesday that its internal systems will apply labels when it detects that significant photorealistic AI has been used.
You Tube will also be making its AI labels more prominent, so they re easier to spot across both long-form videos and You Tube Shorts.
AI labels on the video platform have been in use for over two years, after YouTube updated its AI policies and rolled out a tool in Creator Studio that required creators to disclose their videos included AI content that could be mistaken for a real person, place, or event. Videos that obviously depicted some sort of animated or imaginative scenario like a unicorn prancing through a fantastical world did not have to be labeled.