Today I want to talk to you about a new setting in YouTube, which I have entitled “Beware – YouTube Altered Content.” Just in the last week or so, not for very long, I’ve got a picture of, or I’m showing my screen of where I’m uploading a video on another channel, and there’s a section here that appeared a few weeks ago that says “Altered Content.” It asks if any of the following describe your content: makes a real person appear to say or do something they didn’t, alters footage of a real event or place, generates a realistic-looking scene that didn’t occur. I can honestly say no. I guess it’s aimed at people who are using AI and changing things.
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My videos are fairly basic, to be fair, but I’m not making things up, and I try to be as truthful and real as possible, so it’s not going to affect me. Although I don’t agree with all of Google’s policies and YouTube’s policies, I believe that this is probably quite a good one because some people are making things, even making people and making things look like they happened when they didn’t, which is pretty bad, actually.
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YouTube Altered Content
Here, this is the Google support page, and it says disclosing the use of altered or synthetic content. It says, “We encourage creators in innovative and responsible use of content editing or generation tools. At the same time, we recognize that viewers want to know if what they’re watching or listening to is real.” So when I’m watching something, especially if it’s like a health video or something, or anything really. I want to know that it is genuine.
That section goes on to say, “To help viewers stay informed about the content they’re viewing, we require creators to disclose content that is meaningfully altered or synthetically generated when it seems realistic.” As I said, I think this is a good thing. Creators must disclose content that makes a real person appear to say or do something they didn’t. Alters footage of a real event or place, generates a realistic-looking scene that didn’t actually occur. This could include content that is fully or partially altered or created using audio, video, or image creation or editing tools.
Be Careful With YouTube Altered Content
There’s more I could read, but basically, just if you’re using AI, and I do use AI for a few things, not much, but certainly not for creating content, then be warned and take care. I think it’s for everyone’s good, to be fair.
Now, here I have another tab open, well, let’s go back to here. If I scroll further up here, there’s a section, “Yes, it’s made for kids. No, it’s not made for kids.” I just do that to be on the safe side. Not that any of my videos are offensive, but I’ve just done that for the sake of it, really. But in this, if we come onto the settings here, so I’ve gone to settings, in fact, let’s close that. And let’s go to settings, channel, and then I’m going to advance settings, and I could change it here for the setting. Or, as you saw, I’ve have it set that this channel is not made for kids. And I’m guessing that there may be a setting for the altered content eventually.
There’s not yet, but I’m hoping there might be soon. It’s just one less box to tick if you know what I mean. When that happens, I will let you know and create another video. But just take care if you’re using AI to make content. Otherwise, you could be caught out with your YouTube channel.
To Conclude
Many of us know that AI can be a useful tool that can help us grow our business and save valuable time. But we also know it can be used to make things look real that are actually false. Personally, I would refrain from using AI and make your videos unique with 100% human input.
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