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• @updatesfromyt @updatesfromyt on x

  We're making AI disclosures simpler for creators and clearer for viewers.  Here's what's coming: 🏷️ Labels for realistic AI-generated content will appear on the video player for both long-form videos and on Shorts.  🔍 We're introducing automatic AI detection to help creators labe…

• @oligilpin Oliver Gilpin on x

  Awesome! Congrats to @nealmohan , @hitsman , @reneritchie and all the other people at YouTube for taking such great steps in recent weeks. The efforts show. There's still a lot more to do, so let's hope this is just the beginning. Humans must keep in control of AI... let's

• @kneon @kneon on x

  And I'm sure this will be 100% accurate.

• @andrewcurran_ Andrew Curran on x

  YouTube is updating its AI policy this morning. If you have used YouTube recently, you already know that AI use is rampant there, and very seldom clearly identifiable. They are making two changes: - More prominent AI labels - Automatic AI detection Quoting from the blog: [image]

• @localbateman @localbateman on x

  @DiscussingFilm I am still skeptical about this, their AI is as broken as their copyright system and we are gonna be seeing innocent creators being punished due to AI labeling human made videos as AI.

• @alexweprin Alex Weprin on x

  This is a big shift. If a video on YouTube or Shorts uses AI, the AI label will now be much more prominent.

• @paultassi Paul Tassi on x

  Amazing to me Google is doing both this and now deranking AI articles (yay!) which is exactly their whole business model going forward. It's like yeah we know this is shit, but keep using our products to make this shit. We'll just let everyone know it's shit

• @wariocolosseum @wariocolosseum on x

  would be nicer if they just removed the content altogether but i expect nothing from this company

• @freshnessofuk @freshnessofuk on x

  @DiscussingFilm The honor system is officially dead. YouTube realized creators were aggressively ignoring the Please disclose your AI use checkmark, so they built a digital warden to slap labels on your content anyway.

• @govindrkannan Govind Ramachandran on x

  @DiscussingFilm If YouTube can detect AI-generated content automatically, why did it take so long for them to admit the platform is already drowning in fake-looking junk? [image]

• Rex Baldazo Rex Baldazo on linkedin

  Okay this is a step in the right direction.  We as consumers should absolutely be told when content is created using AI. …

• @zachbussey.tos.gg Zach Bussey on bluesky

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• r/google r on reddit

  YouTube Will Start Automatically Tagging Videos That Make “Significant” Use of AI, and It's Making Labels for AI-Generated Content More Prominent

• r/YoutubeMusic r on reddit

  YouTube implementing AI tagging with auto detection.  Hopefully the same comes to YTM (but I wouldn't count on it)

• r/entertainment r on reddit

  YouTube Will Start Automatically Tagging Videos That Make ‘Significant’ Use of AI, and It's Making Labels for AI-Generated Content More Prominent

• r/technology r on reddit

  YouTube Will Start Automatically Tagging Videos That Make ‘Significant’ Use of AI, and It's Making Labels for AI-Generated Content More Prominent