{"id":630763,"date":"2026-10-14T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/630763\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T22:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T22:00:09","slug":"youtube-to-label-ai-generated-songs-across-its-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/630763\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube to Label AI-Generated Songs Across Its Platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/youtube\/\" id=\"auto-tag_youtube\" data-tag=\"youtube\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> will label AI-generated songs across its main website and <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/youtube-music\/\" id=\"auto-tag_youtube-music\" data-tag=\"youtube-music\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube Music<\/a>, the latest service to publicly mark tracks as not produced by humans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cGenerative AI is opening up new ways for artists to create, experiment, and share music,\u201d\u00a0YouTube said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.youtube\/news-and-events\/youtube-music-ai-labels\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a> on Wednesday. \u201cAs these tools evolve, our listeners have told us they want transparency when they\u2019re hearing an AI-generated track.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe labels began rolling out across YouTube Music on Wednesday, and it will soon expand to the main YouTube platform. The markers will apply to songs YouTube, through its own detection tools and those made by its music partners, deems were \u201ccreated primarily using generative AI.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tYouTube\u2019s pivot comes as several music streaming services have promised to label tracks made either primarily by AI or through some level of AI assistance. Apple Music said in August it would add \u201cMade by AI\u201d\u00a0labels to songs later this year, just after Spotify said it would <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/music\/news\/spotify-strikes-back-against-ai-artists-ai-persona-label-1236831790\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">label<\/a> the profiles of artists who appear to be AI-generated as \u201cAI Personas.\u201d Tidal has also <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/music\/news\/tidal-label-ai-generated-music-ban-royalties-from-ai-songs-1236798543\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">promised<\/a> to label AI music and ban those tracks from accruing royalties. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tA collection of groups representing musicians and the music industry at large \u2014 including the <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/riaa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RIAA<\/a>, IFPI, the <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/grammys\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grammys<\/a> and SAG-AFTRA \u2014 also <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/music\/news\/ifpi-riaa-grammys-sag-aftra-labeling-program-ai-music-1236806377\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">banded together<\/a> over the summer to advocate for a new labeling program to indicate whether a song was produced with AI, urging them to use \u201cAI-Generated\u201d or \u201cAI-Assisted\u201d indicators. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cFans want to know whether and how generative AI has been used in the music to which they listen,\u201d International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) CEO Vikki Oakley and Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) chairman and CEO Mitch Glazier said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"YouTube will label AI-generated songs across its main website and YouTube Music, the latest service to publicly mark&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[111,139,69,145,4139,44639],"class_list":["post-630763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology","tag-youtube","tag-youtube-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630763","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=630763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}