YouTube's AI deepfake detection tool is becoming available to politicians, journalists, and officials, letting them flag unauthorized likenesses for removal.

Political figures and journalists have a free new tool to target unauthorized artificial intelligence “deepfakes,” YouTube announced Tuesday. The tool allows select individuals to identify and remove ...

The tool aims to protect users at the center of political discourse and identify AI-generated videos that resemble their appearance.

The tool alerts individuals to AI content of themselves on YouTube, which they can request the platform remove. Public officials and journalists will soon be able to keep track of AI-generated ...

The latest expansion comes after the Google-owned video platform rolled out the tool to over 5,000 creators in October ...

YouTube is expanding a tool designed to detect impersonations to a select group of government officials, political candidates and journalists. Why it matters: New AI systems are exacerbating the ...

Social media companies are under pressure to crack down on so-called deepfake videos that use deceptive images of real people.

If you can't watch YouTube videos right now, you're not alone. A Tuesday evening YouTube outage affected users across the globe, with problems starting around 8:00 p.m. ET. Early reports are sketchy, ...

YouTube has announced that all of its platforms are “are back to normal” after more than a quarter million users reported issues accessing the social media site. Around 350,000 users reported issues ...

Beast Industries acquired Step to expand into youth-focused financial services. Beast Industries did not disclose the amount it used to acquired Step, which counts major backers such as Stripe. The ...

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