{"id":244931,"date":"2026-01-21T20:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T20:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/244931\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T20:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T20:32:12","slug":"youtube-ceo-promises-more-ai-features-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/244931\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube CEO promises more AI features in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

YouTube is just as wary of the rise of AI slop as you, and that\u2019s why more AI-generated content is coming to the platform in the near future. In a lengthy blog post<\/a> outlining YouTube\u2019s 2026 plans, CEO Neal Mohan said the company will continue to embrace this new “creative frontier” by soon allowing its creators to throw together Shorts using their AI-generated likeness.<\/p>\n

Mohan didn\u2019t elaborate further about how this feature will work when it launches, but acknowledged the “critical” issue of deepfakes currently polluting the web, and reaffirmed his company\u2019s support for new legislation<\/a> such as the NO FAKES Act. YouTube also allows its own creators to protect themselves against unauthorized use of their likeness using a detection feature that scans newly uploaded videos for matches.<\/p>\n

Other fresh AI (note: in no way slop) features referenced in the post include the currently-in-beta no-code Playables<\/a> platform, which lets you make games using Gemini 3 with a single text prompt, as well as new music creation tools. At the same time, Mohan said YouTube is building on its existing systems designed to combat spam, clickbait and “low quality AI content.” He added that an average of six million daily viewers watched more than 10 minutes of AI autodubbed content in December, despite the issues<\/a> that rival platforms have had with similar features.<\/p>\n

Mohan didn\u2019t say when we can expect the new AI likeness generation feature for Shorts, but if that sounds like the sort of content you\u2019d rather not encounter on your lunch break, here\u2019s a little PSA: the company now allows you to omit<\/a> its short-form videos from your YouTube search results altogether.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"YouTube is just as wary of the rise of AI slop as you, and that\u2019s why more AI-generated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,143294,111,139,69,145,4139],"class_list":["post-244931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-neal-mohan","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}