At its Made on YouTube live event on Tuesday, the company unveiled new generative AI tools for Shorts creators. YouTube is bringing a custom version of Google’s ...

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The video-sharing platform is jumping on the AI bandwagon with a new batch of AI-powered tools for content creators. The company announced on Tuesday that users will now be able to use AI to more ...

YouTube has new AI generation tools for Shorts creators. The tools let you create and edit with AI. Content generated with these tools will be marked as AI. More AI is coming to YouTube. In a blog ...

YouTube rolled out a slew of generative artificial intelligence products aimed at a broad audience, an effort from the video platform to show its massive investments in AI are bearing fruit. The ...

Tech giants race to eliminate AI slop from the internet. Model collapse threatens billions in investments, driving platforms to reward authentic human expertise.

Bytedance’s video generation model Seedance 2.0 passed the ‘Will Smith eating spaghetti’ test with flying colors, a ...

TL;DR: YouTube now uses AI to automatically upscale videos below 1080p to HD, improving viewing on high-resolution displays. Creators can opt out, and viewers can disable upscaling, which is labeled ...

YouTube’s AI age verification came into play this August. Google announced that, leveraging AI, it would identify viewers under the age of 18. Initially, the limitation was limited to a small group of ...

YouTube Chief Executive Neal Mohan said combating the rise of low-quality “AI slop” on the platform will be a top priority in 2026, emphasizing the need to embrace artificial intelligence while better ...

Editor’s note: This analysis is part of The Atlantic’s investigation into how YouTube videos are taken to train AI tools. You can use the search tool directly here, to see whether videos you’ve ...

When Jon Peters uploaded his first video to YouTube in 2010, he had no idea where it would lead. He was a professional woodworker running a small business who decided to film himself making a dining ...