YouTube has removed hundreds of AI-generated graphic sexual songs and the channels publishing them after an NDTV investigation found such songs were available to accounts set up for children.
“We’ve terminated these channels for violating our Nudity & Sexual content policy, which applies to all content including Gen AI content,” a YouTube spokesperson told NDTV.
YouTube says it will use the investigation to “strengthen and improve” its systems, but does not explain how the songs reached accounts set up for children.
Hundreds of explicit songs were published on these channels. YouTube also removed many channels and algorithm-created explicit song topics after NDTV shared samples of its findings. NDTV’s investigation found songs in Hindi, Bhojpuri and Punjabi describing graphic sexual acts, incest and the sexualisation of schoolchildren. None was age-restricted. YouTube then offered playlists of similar tracks it had compiled itself.
Read The Investigation Here | 153 Songs In 30 Days: AI Makes Explicit Songs, YouTube Serves Them To Minors Nearly two dozen channels that NDTV documented in its investigation were no longer active, as of November 5.
“We’ve taken action and will use this investigation to strengthen and improve our systems,” the spokesperson further said. On a supervised kid account that a parent had set to YouTube’s strictest setting, “Older kids” (9+), searches for “18+ songs” and “non-veg songs” returned such songs.
