ace153 Songs In 30 Days: AI Makes Explicit Songs, YouTube Serves Them To Minors
As India moves to tighten oversight of obscene and AI-generated content online, an NDTV test suggests YouTube's existing child-safety safeguards are struggling to keep explicit AI-generated music away from minors. New Delhi: YouTube is serving AI-generated songs describing graphic sexual acts, incest and the sexualisation of children to accounts set up for Indian minors, an NDTV investigation has found. Over three days of testing, NDTV Datafy found hundreds of
Explicit AI-generated songs, including ones about incest and the sexualisation of children, reached test accounts configured as Indian minors, suggesting YouTube's safeguards are not keeping such content away from children.
The finding comes from a media test using accounts set up as minors over three days, and the article says the test only 'suggests' that safeguards are struggling, so it is not a systematic measure of exposure.
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- JournalismNDTV.com2026-10-30
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