Your use of YouTube AI features, specifically Dream Screen, Dream Track in YouTube Shorts, Edit with AI, Photo to video, Make me move in Shorts, Veo in Shorts and YouTube Create (standalone video clip, green screen background, Ingredients to Video), AI Image and AI Video in Effect Maker, posts, avatars in Shorts and YouTube Create, or AI Stickers (“YouTube AI Feature(s)”) must comply with YouTube’s Terms of Service and Community Guidelines, and shouldn’t violate the copyrights or privacy rights of others. Feature availability may vary by country and language.
You're responsible for the content that you interact with, create and publish. If the content that you interact with, create and publish violates Community Guidelines, it will be removed and you may get a strike. Don't include confidential or personal information when creating content or interacting with YouTube AI Features and don't rely on the feature for medical, financial or legal advice.
C2PA manifest
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YouTube AI Features Privacy Notice
This privacy notice and Google’s Privacy Policy describe how Google handles your data when you interact with, create, and publish content on YouTube AI Features.
In the European Economic Area and Switzerland, YouTube AI Features are provided by Google Ireland Limited. YouTube AI Features are provided by Google LLC everywhere else. We refer to Google Ireland Limited and Google LLC below as Google.
What data is collected and how it’s used
Google may collect YouTube AI Feature prompts, outputs, what you share with YouTube AI Features (like images and videos), related content, and your feedback to provide, improve, and develop Google’s products and services and machine-learning technologies.
You can review and delete past prompts, outputs, or related content in My Activity. Where content is unable to be managed through My Activity, such content is handled in accordance with Google’s Privacy Policy and is deleted in up to 60 days.
YouTube AI Feature Activity is on by default. YouTube stores YouTube AI Feature prompts, outputs, and related content with your YouTube Account for up to 18 months. Prompts and outputs that aren’t connected to your Google Account are stored for up to 3 years.
Please note that, for all YouTube AI Feature prompts, outputs, and related content collected by Google prior to May 8, 2025, such data connected with your Google account will be saved for up to 60 days. Outputs that are not connected to your Google Account will be stored for up to 1 year.
Additional Details about Avatar Data Collection, Use, and Storage
Data Collection and Use
In addition to the data collection and usage policies for YouTube AI features above, when you use this feature, the recordings of your face and voice (“your recordings”), and data derived and generated from your recordings, are used for the following purposes:
- Content Generation: Allow you to generate new content using your avatar.
- Safety & Security: To protect YouTube, our users, and the public, including with help from human reviewers. For example, we may use the data to verify that you are a real person giving YouTube permission to create an avatar of yourself. We may also use this data to improve safety and security across our services, including AI safety.
Your recordings are securely stored in your YouTube channel (see additional details about Data Retention below). Your recordings are not used to identify you or anyone else. YouTube will not sell your recordings to any third party. YouTube will not share your data with third parties except as permitted by the Google Privacy Policy. Note that certain face and voice data, and data derived and generated from that data, may be considered biometric data in certain jurisdictions.
We don’t use your recordings to train the generative AI models powering our services, except to address abuse or harm.
Data Retention and Your Choices
You are in control of your recordings; you can delete them at any time by deleting your avatar in the YouTube mobile app or YouTube Create app. Learn how to delete your avatar on YouTube.
If you delete your recordings, you will not be able to generate new content using your avatar and will need to re-enroll in this feature. If you don’t use or access your recordings for 3 years, we will automatically delete them.
How human reviewers improve Google AI
To help with quality and improve our products (such as machine-learning models that power YouTube AI Features), human reviewers (including third parties) read, annotate, and process prompts, outputs, and related content for quality control and product improvement. We take steps to protect your privacy as part of this process. These steps include disconnecting prompts and outputs from your Google Account before reviewers see them. Nevertheless, please don’t enter confidential information (or other data you wouldn’t want a reviewer to see) in prompts.
Configuring your settings
Visit your Google Account to access settings and tools that let you safeguard your data and protect your privacy.
When you delete a prompt, output or related content from your YouTube AI Feature activity, such data will be saved with your account for up to 30 days. This lets Google provide the service and process any feedback. After deletion, this activity won’t appear in your My Activity page.
How YouTube AI Feature Activity works with other services and settings
If you delete your YouTube AI Feature Activity, other Google data settings won’t change. Those settings, like YouTube History, Web & App Activity, or Location History, may keep saving location and other data as you use other Google services depending on how you have your settings configured.
Requesting content removal and exporting your information
You can request the removal of certain types of content under our policies or applicable laws. You can also export your information.