YouTube will now automatically label videos that use significant photorealistic AI, instead of relying solely on creators to disclose AI-generated content themselves. It's also making AI labels more prominent.

YouTube shifts from voluntary creator disclosure to automatic AI video detection, with prominent labels and permanent markers for content made with its own tools or verified by…

YouTube is making AI-generated content labels more prominent, and it's going to start automatically applying the labels if it detects that a video includes 'significant…

As the platform leans even further into AI-generated content, it will make it clearer to viewers what is real and what is synthetic.