YouTube Music tests AI hosts that share trivia and commentary

YouTube Music is investigating AI euphony hosts that supply applicable stories, instrumentality trivia, and commentary astir what you’re listening to, the institution announced connected Friday.

The determination comes 2 years aft Spotify launched an AI DJ that delivers a curated enactment of euphony alongside AI-powered spoken commentary astir the tracks and artists you like.

YouTube Music’s caller diagnostic builds connected its ongoing experiments with conversational AI. In July, the work rolled retired an AI conversational vigor feature that lets users make a customized vigor presumption by describing what they privation to hear.

YouTube Music’s caller AI hosts are presently being tested done YouTube Labs, the platform’s caller hub for AI experiments. In a blog post, the institution said YouTube Labs is “a caller inaugural dedicated to exploring the imaginable of AI connected YouTube.”

YouTube Labs is akin to Google Labs, Google’s experimental limb that lets users trial early-stage AI products and supply feedback.

YouTube Labs is unfastened to each YouTube users, which means they don’t request a Premium rank to motion up. However, the institution notes that lone a constricted fig of U.S.-based participants will get beryllium fixed entree to the experimental program.

YouTube Labs has been implementing AI features crossed YouTube recently.

Earlier this month, the institution released a bid of AI features for creators, including GenAI tools for Shorts creation. A fewer months ago, YouTube launched an AI-powered hunt results carousel akin to Google’s AI Overviews and expanded entree to its conversational AI instrumentality to assistance users find much information, person contented recommendations, and get video summaries.

While YouTube is embracing AI features, it’s besides cracking down connected AI slop. The level recently updated its policies to ace down connected creators’ quality to make gross from “inauthentic” content, including mass-produced videos and different types of repetitive content.