YouTube Cracking Down On AI Videos, New Guidelines Released

While such restrictions sound very useful and necessary, it’s worth noting that YouTube has a more complex relationship with AI than the average user may suspect. For example, it has added “a searchable cache of AI material called Dream Screen designed for the Shorts platform” in the hopes that more users who love TikTok will flock to YouTube’s new alternative.

When YouTube CEO Neal Mohan was asked about the potential of users abusing this to create deepfakes and other misleading AI videos, he simply noted “there might be challenges” but that all such videos would be “subject to YouTube community guidelines.”

Speaking of deepfakes, one way that YouTube hopes to keep AI limited is by adding the option for users to make a privacy request to remove “AI-generated or other synthetic or altered content that simulates an identifiable individual, including their face or voice.” Hopefully, this will help individuals keep their faces and voices from being stolen for content while also restricting the proliferation of copycat content (where, say, a would-be musician uses AI to sound more like a famous singer).