{"id":425668,"date":"2026-01-22T10:56:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T10:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/425668\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T10:56:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T10:56:36","slug":"youtubers-will-be-able-to-make-shorts-with-their-own-ai-likenesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/425668\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTubers will be able to make Shorts with their own AI likenesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Your YouTube Shorts feed might soon be filled with a lot more AI-generated content from your favorite creators \u2014 including AI-generated versions of the creators themselves. In his annual letter released today, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says that sometime this year, creators will be able to make Shorts using their \u201cown likeness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Mohan didn\u2019t share further details about these likenesses. \u201cWe\u2019ll have more to share soon, including the launch date and how the feature will work,\u201d according to YouTube spokesperson Boot Bullwinkle. But the likenesses are part of a growing push from YouTube into AI tools; this year, creators will also be able to use AI to make games with a text prompt (a feature already available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/846543\/youtube-will-let-you-use-ai-to-make-games-for-the-platform\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in closed beta<\/a>) and \u201cexperiment with music,\u201d Mohan says. YouTube already offers creators tools like an AI chatbot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/778469\/youtube-creators-ai-analytics-ask-studio-dubbing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">for channel analytics<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/654039\/youtube-expands-its-auto-dubbing-feature-again\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI-powered auto-dubbing<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/612031\/youtube-ai-generated-video-shorts-veo-2-dream-screen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI-generated video clips for Shorts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">YouTube has also had to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/847847\/youtube-shut-down-two-ai-slop-channels-that-pumped-out-fake-movie-trailers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reckon with<\/a> AI slop on its platform, and Mohan\u2019s letter has a brief section dedicated entirely to discussing the topic. \u201cOver the past 20 years, we\u2019ve learned not to impose any preconceived notions on the creator ecosystem,\u201d according to Mohan, but he says that \u201cwith this openness comes a responsibility to maintain the high quality viewing experience that people want.\u201d He also says YouTube is \u201cactively building on our established systems that have been very successful in combatting spam and clickbait, and reducing the spread of low quality, repetitive content.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Shorts are getting other new features, too. Mohan says that YouTube will be integrating \u201cdifferent formats,\u201d including image posts, \u201cdirectly into the feed\u201d this year. He reports that Shorts now average \u201c200 billion daily views.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your YouTube Shorts feed might soon be filled with a lot more AI-generated content from your favorite creators&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,44,5131,61,4718],"class_list":{"0":"post-425668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-streaming","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-youtube"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}