YouTube labels songs created with artificial intelligence

YouTube Music is adding playback-page labels for tracks made fully, partly or not with generative AI.

Partners select the disclosure category, while YouTube also uses its own detection tools and works with partners to identify AI content.

The labels offer a concrete example of how AI involvement can be surfaced to listeners without a blanket restriction on creating or earning from AI music.

How to declare the use of artificial intelligence

YouTube partners are required to choose between three categories to describe their content:

• Completely created by artificial intelligence: Songs that have been produced entirely by programs.
• Partially created: Cases where the artist used artificial intelligence in combination with his own, living elements.
• Without the use of artificial intelligence: Tracks that are not based on such technology, even if they have undergone simple processing such as voice correction with Auto-Tune-type tools.

YouTube identifies this content using its own detection tools, but also through its collaboration with companies in the field.

YouTube's approach compared to other platforms

Unlike Deezer and TIDAL, which have stricter rules—such as excluding AI-generated music from recommendations or losing rights—YouTube is focusing on transparency. The company is not limiting the monetization of these songs, while also experimenting with its own tools, such as "Dream Track," for creating music with the help of AI. Other major platforms, such as Apple Music and Spotify, have announced or implemented similar labeling policies.

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