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…
