YouTube has expanded its artificial intelligence system for detecting deepfakes, now available to any user over 18. The tool, called content detection, allows scanning the face via a selfie so the platform can monitor videos for a digital double. If there is a match, the user receives a notification and can request the removal of the material without popularity requirements.
How AI facial scanning works on the platform 🧠
The process is simple: the user records a selfie, and YouTube's artificial intelligence compares that face with content uploaded to the platform. If the system finds a video where a digital double generated by AI appears, it sends a direct alert to the affected person. The function does not discriminate based on number of subscribers or fame, it only requires being over 18 years old. This allows anyone, even without followers, to protect their visual identity from unauthorized uses.
Finally, a selfie that isn't for asking for likes 📸
So now, in addition to selfies for your profile, dog filters, and blurry photos at the club, you can use your face for something useful: hunting down your digital clone. Because, let's be honest, if someone is going to use my face to impersonate me online, at least let it be for something epic, not to sell fake cryptocurrencies. I do that myself.