{"id":607412,"date":"2026-05-27T22:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/607412\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T22:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:48:17","slug":"youtube-says-its-making-ai-generated-content-labels-more-prominent-and-to-help-you-see-them-here-they-are-zoomed-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/607412\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube says it’s making AI-generated content labels more prominent\u2014and to help you see them, here they are zoomed in"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever watched a YouTube video and immediately screwed up your face in an attempt to discern whether it’s real or AI-generated? Welcome to a daily part of my life. The good news is that YouTube has listened to user feedback, and as a result is moving AI disclosure labels<\/a> for photorealistic and “meaningfully AI altered or generated” content to a “more prominent” position.<\/p>\n

The bad news is, the labels look pretty tiny in the promo video<\/a>. The AI warnings will now sit directly below the video player for long-form AI-generated videos, above the description. For short form, it’s an actual overlay on the video itself. Which is indeed, a prominent position.<\/p>\n

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But yes, both versions still look like they’d be easy to miss. I suppose a big honking “THIS VIDEO IS BULL****” with red flashing warning signals on either side would be a bit much, but I’m not sure it does much to assuage fears that AI-generated videos are becoming harder to spot<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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What might help a little more in this regard, though, is YouTube’s other announcement\u2014that “new internal signals” will be used to help identify AI-generated content.<\/p>\n

YouTube creators are required to manually disclose when they use realistic AI, but I’m guessing that a fair few of them… don’t. With the introduction of this tech, though, the platform says it will be able to automatically apply a label to anything with “significant photorealistic AI use.”<\/p>\n

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“As this technology continues to improve, creators remain in control,” says YouTube. “If a creator thinks their content was incorrectly identified as AI-generated, they can update the disclosure status in YouTube Studio.<\/p>\n

“However, disclosures will remain permanent in a handful of cases, including: Content created using YouTube’s own AI tools, like Veo or Dream Screen [and] content containing C2PA metadata indicating they were fully generative AI.”<\/p>\n

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“Our goal is simple,” the blog post continues. “Make it as easy as possible for creators and viewers to have the right information.”<\/p>\n

A noble goal, to be sure. However, in a world where YouTube dominates the online video market<\/a> (and amid real concerns about the level of AI slop on the platform<\/a>), this new labelling system feels like small potatoes. Very small potatoes indeed, come to think of it.<\/p>\n

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