Google announces new rules on AI-generated content of ‘deceased minors’ on YouTube
The crackdown on artificial intelligence (AI) content occurs when content creators use AI to recreate victims of violent crimes.
Google has announced a new update to its harassment and cyberbullying policies, aimed at preventing content creators from using virtual recreations of minors murdered in violent crimes.
The new rules will come into effect on January 16.
“On January 16,” Google said in a YouTube policy update, “we will begin displaying content that realistically simulates deceased minors or victims of significant fatal or well-documented violent events depicting their death or the violence experienced.” .
Under current anti-harassment rules, failure to follow the policy results in a warning and content removal. The creator can also conduct policy training, which will cause the warning to expire after 90 days.
However, a second violation of the policy within 90 days will result in a strike against the user. If a creator receives three strikes in a 90-day period, their channel will be terminated.
However, extreme political abuses could lead to more extreme measures.
“We may terminate your channel or account for repeated violations of the Community Guidelines or Terms of Service,” Google’s harassment policy said. “We may also terminate your channel or account after a single instance of serious abuse, or when the channel engages in a policy violation.”
The policy changes are a reaction to a growing trend among true crime content creators on social media. Some creators have begun using AI-generated images and voices to recreate victims of violent crimes, who then narrate the incident in which they lost their lives. Washington Post reported on one such case in August 2023, noting that one such video circulating on TikTok showed the image of James Bulger, who was kidnapped and murdered in 1993 in the United Kingdom.
While TikTok has said it finds the videos “disturbing” and was removing them as they were found, the Mail Many were still available to view on YouTube, he reported.
talking to The daily mirror At the time, Bulger’s mother, Denise Fergus, said she found the videos “disgusting.”
“It’s one thing to tell the story, I have no problem with that,” Fergus said. “Everyone knows James’ story anyway. But putting on the face of a dead child, talking about what happened to him, is absolutely disgusting. It is giving life back to a dead child. “It’s wrong.”
