YouTube Music has launched a labeling system for tracks created with generative AI. The label appears on the player page, and clicking it reveals more detail about the specific role AI played in a track’s composition or vocals. The labels also extend to the main YouTube app. YouTube said it collaborated with music partners and deployed its own detection tools to identify AI-generated music.

According to YouTube’s help page, partners can declare their work with one of three designations: Fully Gen AI, for tracks that are entirely generated by AI; Partly Gen AI, for works where artists added live elements to AI-generated components; and No Gen AI, for tracks that only use pitch-correction tools such as Auto-Tune.

The rollout comes as streaming platforms are responding to the rapid growth of AI-generated music. Apple Music plans to introduce ‘Made With AI’ labels as part of its AI Transparency Tags later this year. Spotify has AI labels and a music spam filter. Deezer has taken a stricter stance, reporting in July that it receives nearly 90,000 fully AI-generated tracks daily; it labels detected AI music, excludes it from algorithmic recommendations and editorial playlists, and withholds royalties from fraudulent streams. Deezer is also working on an option that lets users filter out AI-generated music. TIDAL labels recordings it identifies as entirely AI-generated, allows listeners to disable them, and excludes them from royalty attribution.

YouTube, by contrast, is focusing on disclosure rather than blanket restrictions. Its new labels are meant to inform listeners about AI’s role, but AI involvement alone doesn’t make a track ineligible for monetization. YouTube also runs experiments with AI-powered creation, including Dream Track, which lets select creators generate soundtracks featuring AI-generated versions of participating artists’ voices.