YouTube will begin automatically labeling videos when its systems detect "significant" photorealistic AI use, while also making AI-content disclosures more visible below long-form videos and directly on Shorts. "We've heard consistently from our community that they value transparency when it comes to generative AI content," YouTube said in a blog post. "These changes are designed to balance transparency with creator control." Variety reports: Under YouTube's guidelines, creators will still be required to manually disclose when they use realistic AI. But starting this week, it also will roll out a new internal system to help identify AI-generated content. "If a creator doesn't specify whether or not they used AI, but our systems detect significant photorealistic AI use, we will now automatically apply a label," YouTube said. YouTube creators who believe their content was incorrectly flagged as AI-generated can modify the disclosure status using the YouTube Studio tool. However, according to YouTube, the AI labels will "remain permanent" in some cases, including for content created using YouTube's own AI tools (such as Veo or Dream Screen) and for content that contains C2PA metadata (based on standards from the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity) that indicates it was fully AI-generated. In addition, YouTube is moving the disclosure label for photorealistic and meaningfully AI-altered or AI-generated content to a more prominent position. Until now, YouTube labeled AI content in a video's expanded description. Going forward, for long-form videos, the AI label will now appear directly below the video player and above the description. For YouTube Shorts, the label will appear as an overlay on the video itself. "The goal here is context at a glance. If it looks real but was made with AI, viewers will know immediately," said Rene Ritchie, YouTube head of editorial and creator liaison. He added that the AI labels alone "do not affect how our videos are recommended or whether they can earn money. This is purely about giving viewers the right information at the right time."

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Jusqu'à présent, YouTube demandait aux créateurs d'indiquer s'ils utilisent des intelligences artificielles génératives pour leurs vidéos. Mais ça, c'était avant.

Né la même année que le lancement de YouTube, le prodige Kane Parsons est sur le point d'écrire l'histoire du cinéma. À 20 ans, son premier long-métrage Backrooms, produit par le studio hollywoodien A24, est projeté pour un démarrage phénoménal entre 40 et 50 millions de dollars. Retour sur la trajectoire surréaliste d'un adolescent qui a conçu un blockbuster depuis sa chambre avec un logiciel gratuit.

Un YouTubeur a transformé la roue d'exercice de son hamster en mini-turbine pour recharger son téléphone. Ça fonctionne, à condition de patienter et de soigner son câble USB.

Le procès entre Elon Musk et Sam Altman, qui pourrait bouleverser l'avenir d'OpenAI, va être diffusé en direct à partir de sa seconde semaine. Problème : le tribunal n'autorise qu'un flux audio. Il sera impossible de le regarder en vidéo.

Long-time Slashdot reader Anne Thwacks frequently uses YouTube's subtitles "not to disturb others in the room, or because my hearing is not very good." But they say there's a new problem. "The subtitling is terrible!" Almost every sentence has a huge error. Proper names are more often wrong than right. Non-English place names are almost always mangled to barely recognizable. And no effort whatsoever is made to use context to figure out whether a place name is Russian or Arabic, and often complete garbage is used in place of a common French, Spanish or Italian name! If AI actually works (I have my doubts about this), surely it would be possible to figure out language contexts. If it is about an event in Italy, then expect a lot of Italian names! If it is about the Russia-Ukraine war, then expect places in Russia or Ukraine to be more plausible than mindless gobbledygook! Does YouTube not know that there are places in the world that are not in America? (However, plenty of names of people and places famous in America are also regularly screwed up.) They argue the subtitles are "appallingly bad" — and that "the situation seems to be getting worse," wondering why the problem isn't addressed with some basic spell-checking. ("I'm sure that the vast majority of foul-ups could be fixed by the use of a dictionary.") Have any Slashdot readers seen similar problems? A friend of mine noticed that YouTube's subtitles even bungled this innocuous song from the 1966. ANNETTE FUNICELLO: "If your love is true love, you can tell by his touch." YOUTUBE SUBTITLE: "If your love is too lava, you can tell by his touch..." Share your own experiences and thoughts in the comments. And do you think YouTube's subtitles are "appallingly bad"?

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C’est la fin d’une frustration pour des millions d’utilisateurs. YouTube officialise le déploiement mondial et gratuit du Picture-in-Picture (PiP) pour tout le monde. Cette option était jusqu'ici réservée aux abonnés Premium dans la plupart des pays.

C’est la fin d’une frustration pour des millions d’utilisateurs. YouTube officialise le déploiement mondial et gratuit du Picture-in-Picture (PiP) pour tout le monde. Cette option était jusqu'ici réservée aux abonnés Premium dans la plupart des pays.

Un développeur japonais propose une solution aussi absurde qu’efficace contre le scroll infini : faire apparaître un chat géant, pour vous obliger à lever le nez de votre écran.

Imaginez une technologie capable de scanner des milliards d'heures de vidéo pour y traquer votre visage ou votre voix utilisés sans votre accord. C’est le pari monumental de YouTube, qui vient d'ouvrir son outil de détection d'IA à l'industrie d'Hollywood. Un bouclier numérique qui pourrait bien changer la donne pour les célébrités, mais aussi pour le futur de la création.

Voilà quelques années que YouTube n'affiche plus les mentions « Je n'aime pas » (pouces rouges) pour les utilisateurs. Mais si la plateforme ne donne plus cette information, certaines astuces permettent quand même de les afficher. Voici la marche à suivre.