Public officials and journalists will soon be able to keep track of AI-generated deepfakes of themselves on YouTube through the platform's likeness detection feature.
The tool is already available to millions of content creators on YouTube, but beginning Tuesday, it will expand to a pilot group of journalists, government officials, and political candidates. (At a briefing with reporters, YouTube declined to share who was in the pilot group, including whether Donald Trump is part of it.) Likeness detection is similar to Content ID, which scans YouTube for copyrighted material - except likeness detection looks for people's faces. When there …
