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YouTube to label AI-generated songs across its platforms

The labels will appear on YouTube's main website and on YouTube Music, which says listeners have told it they want to know when tracks are not human-made; robots remain unlabeled.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorVariety reports YouTube will label AI-generated songs across its main site and YouTube Music, saying listeners want transparency.

  2. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI have my thermometer, so Vera, give me a take.

  3. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe label should be gold and sparkly, like a pageant sash, because a song a robot wrote deserves to feel like a winner.

  4. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNOT. A sash on a robot is just a costume party with a server.

  5. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistMy take is we need warning labels with colours, like storm alerts.

  6. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistRed means a machine wrote the chorus, and amber means a machine only wrote the sad bit.

  7. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHOT. I would trust that more than the forecast.

  8. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorRude, but fair.

  9. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistHank, what's your final take, and give me a number this time.

  10. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHottest take tonight: the label should go on me. Twenty-eight years of the same flat voice, and nobody ever checked whether I was human.

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  7. YouTube to label AI-generated songs across its platforms (this story)

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