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YouTube Will Alert Civic Leaders and Reporters to Deepfakes that Involve Their Likeness
The pilot enables verified politicians and journalists to monitor and request removal of AI deepfakes, with few removal requests so far, YouTube says.
- YouTube said Tuesday it will expand likeness detection to a pilot of government officials, political candidates and journalists, following last year’s rollout to 4 million creators in the YouTube Partner Program.
- Amid a surge in deepfakes, generative AI has made it easy to fake likenesses, leading YouTube to act against fake videos that sometimes amass millions of views and undermine viewer trust.
- To enroll in the pilot, channel owners or managers must submit a government-issued ID and short selfie video for verification so YouTube can list matches under the Content detection tab in YouTube Studio.
- YouTube cautioned that removal requests are evaluated under longstanding privacy guidelines, protecting parody, satire and political critique, so not every detected match will be removed.
- Looking ahead, YouTube plans to extend detection to voices and other intellectual property, supports the NO FAKES Act, and warns repeat offenders face demonetization or termination under YouTube's 2026 priorities.
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The tool seeks comparisons between people and content generated by IA and will be available first in France, the United Kingdom, the United States and Brazil, but must be available worldwide by the end of the year.
YouTube announced Tuesday's extension to journalists and public officials of the Likenness ID instrument, which detects on the platform content generated by artificial intelligence using the image or voice without consent.
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