WHAT NEW AI FEATURES CAN CREATORS EXPECT ON YOUTUBE THIS YEAR?

Fri 23 January 2026:

YouTube shares your concerns about the surge of low-quality AI slop, which is precisely why the platform intends to introduce even more AI-generated content options soon. In CEO Neal Mohan’s detailed blog post detailing the company’s roadmap for 2026, he emphasized embracing AI as a “creative frontier” while actively combating spam, clickbait, and subpar AI output to preserve a high-quality viewer experience.

Mohan didn’t elaborate further about how this feature will work when it launches, but acknowledged the “critical” issue of deepfakes currently polluting the web, and reaffirmed his company’s support for new legislation such as the NO FAKES Act.

YouTube also allows its own creators to protect themselves against unauthorized use of their likeness using a detection feature that scans newly uploaded videos for matches.

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Other fresh AI (note: in no way slop) features referenced in the post include the currently-in-beta no-code Playables platform, which lets you make games using Gemini 3 with a single text prompt, as well as new music creation tools. At the same time, Mohan said YouTube is building on its existing systems designed to combat spam, clickbait and “low quality AI content.”

He added that an average of six million daily viewers watched more than 10 minutes of AI autodubbed content in December, despite the issues that rival platforms have had with similar features.

Mohan didn’t say when we can expect the new AI likeness generation feature for Shorts, but if that sounds like the sort of content you’d rather not encounter on your lunch break, here’s a little PSA: the company now allows you to omit its short-form videos from your YouTube search results altogether.

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