Youtube updates erase tool: Copyright music is automatically filtered out

Erase Song is a function that can be used by content creators to cut copyright-protected music from their videos. The other audio content remains unaffected. This means that if a song is playing in the background that you don't want to pay license fees for, you can filter it out. Apparently, Erase Song, i.e. the song eraser, has not worked very well so far, according to the official YouTube channel for Creator. An update for the function is announced there, which should now filter copyright content much better.

The update is an AI support: an "AI-powered algorithm" should now be able to recognize the audio content that is protected much better and make it disappear much better. Another new feature is that the tool offers two options. You can either remove the affected content and leave other audio content in place or block all audio content for the duration of the protected music.

In addition to Erase Song, YouTube also offers other functions in the editing menu, YouTube Studio, that allow creators to edit audio content. For example, you can replace music - YouTube provides a library of freely usable audio content. Sound and video content can also be cut out together, or you can assure YouTube that you have the rights to everything that can be seen and heard in the video.

The Erase Song function should be available in the coming weeks. In the YouTube video, the insider host says that it is still possible that the function does not always work one hundred percent correctly. In these cases, he suggests that content creators use the other options, such as deleting entire sequences.

More AI for YouTube

YouTube offers a whole range of tools for creators: from video editing to monetization. Most of them are based on AI in the broadest sense, such as YouTube Create and Dream Screen, a function that allows you to create backgrounds using a prompt.

More options for viewers have also been added recently. This includes making it easier for viewers to complain when videos are about them or show images of them that should not be shown. The focus is on deepfakes, i.e. manipulated images of private individuals. However, artificial intelligence is also intended to help view only interesting parts of a video, for example. What Jump Ahead or the AI behind it classifies as relevant or interesting remains a little unclear. However, it is still an experiment that people have to activate for themselves in the settings.

(emw)