YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

Re:YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos by zahlman on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @06:55PM (#48301877)

Indeed. I've heard a few compositions that I knew were AI-generated and still thought were pretty good.

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Re:YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos by lelandfe on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @07:02PM (#48301954)

Look up Xania Monet. AI artist “signed” to Warner Bros with a multimillion contract after “she” charted on Billboard.

There’s an appetite for this.

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Re:YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos by throwaway85825 on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @07:11PM (#48302037)

Just re-upload it. AI generated work cant be copyrighted.

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Re:YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos by ThrustVectoring on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @07:33PM (#48302235)

Even if the courts won't uphold the copyright, that doesn't prevent people from claiming your videos and initiating YouTube's copyright process against you. This is a recurring problem for people who upload their own original performances of public-domain compositions, particularly solo piano.

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Re:YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos by anigbrowl on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @09:54PM (#48303401)

Indeed. False copyright claims should be illegal, they're an invitation to fraud.

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Re:YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos by tardedmeme on Thursday May 28, 2026 @07:19AM (#48307391)

What if you claim it first against them? You wouldn't be punished for a false claim, since they're not.

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Re:YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos by ThrustVectoring on Thursday May 28, 2026 @02:04PM (#48312962)

uhh, no

Reasonable people can believe they have a legitimate ownership right when they petition YouTube for copyright enforcement for AI-generated work. The courts might eventually disagree, but that's a different thing than knowingly making a fraudulent misrepresentations to YouTube for financial benefit. This difference makes the proposed behavior criminal fraud. I highly recommend not risking twenty years of prison time for like maybe a couple hundred dollars in ad revenue.

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Re:YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos by tardedmeme on Thursday May 28, 2026 @04:16PM (#48314832)

It's not knowing misrepresentation. You AI-generated the same video, so how were you to know it wasn't yours? Just don't show them this HN thread.

Besides, nobody's actually checking

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Re:YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos by fc417fc802 on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @08:39PM (#48302734)

An often repeated talking point that's broadly false without further context. Mechanical output on its own can't be copyrighted, that hasn't changed. However it can be if sufficient (as determined by the courts) human creativity went into causing it to be output.

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Re:YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos by nelsonfigueroa on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @07:38PM (#48302287)

Wow I had no idea there were already popular AI artists. Xania Monet has ~500k monthly listeners on Spotify and some of her (its?) youtube videos have millions of views. This is depressing.

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Re:YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos by fleebee on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @07:43PM (#48302331)

I don't think it's people deliberately seeking this stuff out. For whatever reason, the algorithms love recommending AI content, and I'm sure the numbers are juiced to some degree with bot farms.

Not that it still isn't depressing.

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Re:YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos by knome on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @08:21PM (#48302614)

>the algorithms love recommending AI content

wouldn't be surprised if it's because they don't have to pay out for AI music.

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Re:YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos by Nathanba on Thursday May 28, 2026 @01:26AM (#48304934)

I love my hour long AI songs, I listen to them over and over again. Check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfqOEyLFrJI or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-dRotOi01Q

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Re:YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos by poszlem on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @07:22PM (#48302144)

I think the op mean people writing stuff like: "Amazing what a human soul can create", "This is such a beautiful song. I'm so happy it's not another AI slop" type of comments. I have a fairly popular youtube channel with AI generated music, I make it very obvious that it's AI, yet I still get hundreds of those comments a month.

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Re:YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos by userbinator on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @10:48PM (#48303800)

I make it very obvious that it's AI, yet I still get hundreds of those comments a month.

That suggests you've done a good job of directing the AI to generate what people like.

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Re:YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos by eichin on Thursday May 28, 2026 @04:05AM (#48306059)

or that the comments themselves are AI/bots? (not meant as a criticism, other than of youtube itself)

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