YouTube builds tools to protect content creators from artificial intelligence

Copying the produced content has become one of the serious concerns of YouTube activists; But this platform has recently announced that it has dedicated tools to deal with such a phenomenon under construction and will soon make them available to content creators.

How can YouTube protect works against artificial intelligence?

The new YouTube post has announced the development of tools that allow content producers to have more control over their works and prevent possible abuses by artificial intelligence. According to YouTube’s official announcement, the new management tools will allow users to take advantage of the creative potential of artificial intelligence and promote the responsible use of tools based on this technology; While at the same time it can reduce copying of audio or other intellectual property in videos by automated services.

One of YouTube’s new tools called “artificial playback detection technology” allows artists and content producers to identify content that has used their voice using artificial intelligence to read other songs or playbacks. YouTube has indicated that this tool will be offered as a subset of the Content ID system, and will likely be offered as a pilot program starting next year.

The rapid development and ever-increasing expansion of productive artificial intelligence-based services has made many artists concerned about copying or abusing their works. Late last year, YouTube promised music publishers that it would take measures to prevent such incidents. Also, a group of artists published a letter early this year, warning against the unauthorized use of their voices in artificial intelligence tools and harming human creativity.

Among other tools of YouTube to fight against the misuse of artificial intelligence is the technology to detect fake videos and deepfake. The feature focuses mostly on videos that feature people’s faces or mimic the performance of singers, actors, and other artists on stage. Of course, the details of how this tool works and the date of presentation have not been announced and apparently YouTube is still developing it.

YouTube has once again announced its position against the use of videos on this platform to train artificial intelligence models and blocks any unauthorized use of the content for such work. Of course, despite all these conditions, many companies active in the field of artificial intelligence, including OpenAI, Apple, Anthropic, Nvidia and Runway, have used videos uploaded on YouTube to train their models, and it is not clear how YouTube wants to prevent future unauthorized use. . Also, in the near future, content creators will have options to authorize or set the level of access of automated tools to videos.