Artificial intelligence has become a tool that many people use in their daily lives, whether to speed up their tasks at work or in their studies by automating certain tasks, or simply for entertainment by creating images with AI. The problem is that this tool, like almost all of them, It can also be used to harm and spread false information.and that’s something YouTube wants to avoid.
YouTube announced in late 2023 that it would make new tools available to users of the platform to flag and identify content created with AI or otherwise edited. These tools are now available and The platform asks users to identify these types of videos when downloading them.
If the video was created with artificial intelligence, indicate so
For several years, we have heard about “Fake news” on social networks, and for good reason: these platforms for sharing ideas and content have become an ideal place for fake news can go viralincorrect data and, more recently, altered images and videos to mislead people.
Platforms are looking for ways to combat this. Facebook, for example, announced its own tool for creating images with AI, but at the same time identifies that these images are not real.
For its part, when downloading a video from YouTube you must now check if this video It was created using artificial intelligenceor if it has been radically modified.
YouTube requires the video to be tagged if it meets at least one of these conditions:
- Makes it look like a real person said or did something that they didn’t actually do
- Edit images of a real event or location
- Generates a realistic scene that didn’t actually happen
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These videos are not banned on the platform (unless they violate content rules, for example by inciting violence), as they may be a parody or something similar. However, the important thing is that they are labeled to prevent people from believing that these are real events.
It is not necessary to tag videos if there is minor alteration or one that does not drastically affect the content: for example, when using beauty or animation filters on a video, even if technically the scene in the video has been altered or edited, this does it. does not require a label. The term “altered or synthetic video” is exclusive to videos that have been radically altered or created entirely with AI.
The tool has already started to be available when uploading a video to the platform. YouTube warns that if videos are not properly labeled, the company may label them itself, “to reduce the risk” of users being misled by unrealistic content. Additionally, anyone choosing not to tag eligible videos could be penalized through the platform.
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