General Discussion

‘Altered or synthetic content’: This indicates that a video contains content that has been meaningfully altered or synthetically generated. There are several ways that this information ends up in the ‘How this content was made’ section of the expanded description of a video.

You should expect to see this disclosure when:

The creator manually discloses the use of ‘altered or synthetic’ content in the YouTube Studio workflow. When content is undisclosed, in some cases, YouTube may take action to reduce the risk of harm to viewers by proactively applying a label that creators will not have the option to remove. Learn more about our "altered or synthetic content" disclosures.

The creator uses YouTube’s generative AI tools (e.g., DreamScreen).

The content contains valid Content Credentials data indicating the entire video is made with AI. Learn more about Content Credentials (C2PA).