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

Submitted ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨BrikoX@lemmy.zip⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.zip⁩

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/youtube-ai-video-labels-automatic-detection-1236758865/

YouTube is making AI-generated content labels more prominent, and it’s going to start automatically applying the labels if it detects that a video includes ‘significant photorealistic AI use.’

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favoredponcho@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
YouTube has been almost ruined by AI. Even the ads are a fucking AI slop joke and they fire so regularly now that it’s impossible to watch anything without getting the urge to rage quit.

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- squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
  Ads on YouTube? Haven’t seen one in years thanks to
  
  Firefox + uBlock Origin on desktop
  
  YouTube Revanced on Android
  
  SmartTube on AndroidTV
  
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  - favoredponcho@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    Yeah, everyone knows, bud.
    
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ninjabard@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Will this include YouTubers who use Youtube’s own thumbnail generator and other AI “tools?”

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- osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It will probably just define 'significant' as 'using tools other than Gemini'
  
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xep@discuss.online ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Except Gemini, right?

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