YouTube on Tuesday unveiled a new batch of AI tools coming to Shorts and YouTube Studio, including expanding its feature that lets people detect AI videos using their facial likeness. The Google-owned tech giant revealed the upgrades at its creator-focused event, Made on YouTube, in New York.
“Today’s announcements are grounded in our belief that AI should be in service of human creation,” YouTube CEO Neal Mohan said at Made on YouTube. “We’re developing tools that give creators new ways to tell their stories and viewers ways to discover them.”
YouTube is bringing a custom version of Google DeepMind’s video generation model Veo 3 to Shorts, allowing users to create short, vertical videos with sound from a text prompt. You can try it by tapping the “create” button and then the sparkle icon in the top right corner of Shorts, the company said. The feature is rolling out now in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
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Additional features will roll out to more users in the coming weeks, including Edit with AI, which transforms raw footage into a first draft video, and Speech to Song, which turns dialogue from eligible videos into soundtracks. YouTube said it will start experimenting with Veo capabilities that can add motion and objects to Shorts in the coming months.
A stack of new YouTube Studio features was also announced, such as one that expands likeness detection. The tool will let people catch and request the removal of unauthorized videos made with their facial likeness. It’s currently available as an open beta to all YouTube Partner Program creators.
More upgrades arriving for YouTube Studio in the coming weeks include the AI-powered conversational chat tool, Ask Studio (US only), and the ability to add collaborators to a video and have it appear to all their audiences (slated to drop worldwide). A/B testing for titles and new updates to the Inspiration Tab will be available to most by the end of the year, and an auto-dubbing with lip sync feature is in a limited test, YouTube said.
