YouTube says it will release new generative AI features by end of year

Sept. 18 (UPI) -- YouTube officials plan to roll out new generative AI features by the end of the year with the goal of making artificial intelligence available to more people around the world.

The new AI features will become available at different times to make AI available to "billions of people around the world," YouTube CEO Neal Mohan said Wednesday during a promotion event at Google 's office in Manhattan.

About 92% of YouTube content creators use AI tools, Mohan said, so the new technology will help them develop their creative ideas faster, YouTube senior director of product Sarah Ali added.

The new AI features will include AI-generated video clips lasting six seconds that users can integrate into the YouTube Shorts video hub.

Google's DeepMind AI program helps make the YouTube Shorts platform for short-form videos work.

YouTube also will provide users with an "Inspiration" feature that will offer text and images produced by generative AI, and an AI-enhanced feature that helps content creators to reply to visitors' comments.

Using Google's AI tool called Veo will help content creators use textual prompts to create AI-generated images that will serve as the basis for 6-second video clips.

The AI-generated video clips will be watermarked with SynthID to identify the content as AI-generated.

YouTube also said it intends to launch a Dream Track to produce instrumental tracks for video shorts and a tool called Music AI Sandbox to create loops of musical material.

An auto-dubbing feature is planned that will translate videos into other languages while an expressive speech upgrade will help make the dubbed material sound more authentic.

YouTube also plans to enable content creators to categorize videos as seasons and episodes within respective seasons.

The video-based social media service earlier this money unveiled new safeguards that limit exposure to potentially harmful content aimed at teen users.