YouTube announced Friday that it will demonetize videos from creators that instruct viewers how to create or promote pornographic artificial intelligence videos.
The new policy will ensure that YouTube creators teaching viewers how to use AI to create sexually explicit content will not earn ad revenue off the videos. With the explosion of AI in recent years, there have been increasing concerns from lawmakers about the dangers of AI-generated pornography. At the same time, there has been a growing market for individuals to post AI-generated content on pornographic platforms like OnlyFans.
YouTube updated its advertiser-friendly guidelines to clarify that “promoting the creation or distribution of content that has been digitally altered or generated to be sexually explicit or to contain nudity” is not ad-friendly.
This includes videos “providing instructions on how to create or distribute sexually explicit synthetic content or synthetic content containing nudity” and “promoting the creation of sexually explicit synthetic content or synthetic content containing nudity, such as endorsements or comparisons of deepfake pornography services.”
This would include videos that instruct people how to make AI-generated OnlyFans accounts. According to the third-party plugin vidIQ, there are 800,000 average views per video found when searching “AI only fans business.” The highest views for a video with those guidelines is over 5.1 million, and the average subscriber total for channels featuring related content is nearly 700,000.
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YouTube also added an updated definition of “deepfakes,” defining it as “synthetic media that have been digitally manipulated to replace one person’s likeness convincingly with that of another.”
“We are updating the YouTube Advertiser-friendly guidelines to make it clear that we do not allow ads to run on any content promoting services that create synthetic sexually-explicit content,” a YouTube spokesman told The Daily Wire.
The spokesman added that much of this content was already prohibited under YouTube’s Community Guidelines.
The updates to its advertiser guidelines come as lawmakers have grown increasingly wary of the potential dangers of AI. Earlier this year, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced a bill that would criminalize the publication of non-consensual AI-generated deepfake pornography, while many states have moved to ban AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery.
