US EditionYouTube Will Soon Let Creators Make Shorts Using Their AI Likeness
YouTube will let creators generate AI-generated Shorts using their likeness and expand AI tools while enhancing safeguards against deepfakes and low-quality content in 2026.
- On Wednesday, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan announced creators will soon be able to make Shorts using their own likeness, launching this year as part of YouTube's 2026 plans.
- Facing competition from TikTok and Instagram Reels , Mohan said YouTube will dramatically expand AI tools this year, including game production using Google DeepMind models.
- Shorts now averages 200 billion daily views, more than 1 million YouTube channels used AI creation tools daily in December, and YouTube has expanded likeness-detection technology for creators.
- Creators will receive new controls to manage likeness use and removal requests, YouTube requires disclosure of altered content, and parents will soon set Shorts time limits to zero.
- Neal Mohan wrote `AI will remain a tool for expression, not a replacement` and pledged to fight low-quality 'AI slop' while backing the NO FAKES Act, prioritizing creator safeguards.
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YouTube's big AI push for 2026: Creators to make Shorts using their own likeness, TV gets major upgrade
YouTube has ambitious plans for its platform and creators in 2026, with a strong focus on deeper artificial intelligence (AI) integration across both existing and upcoming tools. YouTube CEO Neal Mohan recently revealed that creators will soon be able to use AI to create short videos that look like themselves. While Mohan did not share detailed technical specifics, the feature appears similar to OpenAI’s Sora, where users generate videos using s…
In the face of the proliferation of content generated by artificial intelligence, Youtube hardens its policy against deepfakes and AI Slop, AI videos of poor quality. Paradoxically, a feature to generate self-generated Shorts by IA is also in the pipes.
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