YouTube Expands AI Deepfake Detection and Removal to Celebrities

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YouTube is expanding its AI likeness detection tool to celebrities, giving talent and their representatives the ability to find and request removal of AI-generated deepfake content. The platform's detection feature previously covered a narrower set of users and now searches YouTube proactively for AI deepfakes of public figures. Both TechCrunch and The Verge confirmed the expansion, which is the most significant platform-level deepfake enforcement action from a major video platform to date.