aceYouTube Music Begins Labelling AI-Generated Songs, Plans Expansion To Main Platform Amid Industry-Wide Push For Transparency
YouTube has begun labelling AI-generated songs on YouTube Music to improve transparency for listeners, with plans to expand the feature to its main platform. The move follows similar initiatives by Apple Music, Spotify and Tidal to identify AI-generated music. Los Angeles: With Artificial Intelligence (AI) becoming increasingly common across industries, including music, it’s getting harder to tell whether a song is original or AI-generated. To make things clearer and avoid confusion, YouTube will now label
Listeners on YouTube Music can now see which songs are AI-generated, which reduces confusion about whether a track is original or machine-made.
The labelling is described as live on YouTube Music only, with the main platform still planned. The supplied text is also truncated, so how songs are identified and labelled is not specified.
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