YouTube
Remove YouTube's synthetic content label
Shorts, thumbnails and community posts all get scanned.
YouTube asks creators to disclose realistic synthetic content and shows an "altered or synthetic content" note in the description — or, for sensitive topics, directly on the player. Uploaded files carrying generator provenance can trigger it without any manual disclosure.
Thumbnails and community-post images are checked as images, so cleaning them is the fastest win. Video processing is available on the Ultimate plan.
The label at a glance
- Label shown
- Altered or synthetic content
- Where it appears
- In the expanded description, or on the video player for sensitive topics.
- Platform policy
- YouTube requires disclosure for realistic altered or synthetic media and can add the label itself.
Clean your photo now
Drop a JPG — you get a post-ready file back in seconds.
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Practical tips before you post
- Clean your thumbnail as well as the video — thumbnails are a separate image upload.
- Community posts use the same image pipeline as regular uploads.
- Never tick the synthetic-content box for stylised or clearly unrealistic content.