The move comes amid growing criticism from content creators, artists, and publishers about the use of their work in AI training without proper acknowledgment or payment. Companies like Adobe and Stability AI have started offering royalties to artists for their contributions. YouTube has also launched AI-detection tools to protect creators from unauthorized use of their content. Despite these changes, YouTube will continue to train its own AI models using some content under existing agreements with creators.
Key takeaways:
- YouTube now allows creators to choose if third-party companies can use their content to train AI models through a new setting in YouTube Studio.
- Creators can manually authorize specific companies or allow all third-party companies to train models using their material.
- The default setting prevents third parties from training AI models using creators' content unless explicitly authorized.
- YouTube will continue to train its own AI models on some content in accordance with existing agreements with creators.