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Celebrities will be able to find and request removal of AI deepfakes on YouTube

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The platform’s likeness detection tool scans the platform for AI lookalikes and flags them for potential removal. The platform’s likeness detection tool scans the platform for AI lookalikes and flags them for potential removal. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. YouTube is expanding its AI deepfake monitoring feature to Hollywood — meaning some celebrity AI videos could soon disappear. The platform’s likeness detection feature searches YouTube for AI deepfake content and flags it for public figures enrolled in the program. Public figures can use it to keep track of AI content on YouTube of themselves or request removal (takedowns are evaluated against YouTube’s privacy policy, and not every request will be approved). YouTube began testing the feature with content creators last fall; in

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