YouTube To Allow Actors And Musicians To Request Takedowns Of Their Deepfakes

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In wonder how that’s going to work with Literally Me (a.k.a. Ryan Gosling).

YouTube has little internet wars on several fronts. Over there, it’s the war on ad blockers. But here, they’ve decided to roll out some new rules and features for AI generated content; specifically, the use and misuse thereof. The new policies set boundaries for videos made with AI, as well as addressing the use of deepfakes. to the end of the latter point, they’re now allowing musicians and actors the ability to request takedowns of content using their likeness or voice.

Naturally, this won’t see the removal of all such content; merely the removal of offending material that might be misconstrued as, say, support for a certain cause that an actor might not actually support, or songs a musician would never sing. This will definitely work, as actors and musicians are known for never misusing a method of content takedown on YouTube.

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Aside from all of that, the update will feature tools for the clear labelling of AI content in videos, which YouTube will now require for any videos that contain such content. This will be displayed to users with a banner in the description stating in what way AI content was used in the video. The penalty for not disclosing the use of AI in videos could be anything from demonetization to suspension or worse. And even then, YouTube may still remove labelled content if the video is disturbing enough.

Source: Engadget

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