YouTube Music rolled out the labels on October 14.
Fully Gen AI. Partly Gen AI. No Gen AI.
Tap the label. It shows what the AI actually did.
Fully Gen AI
Typed a prompt into a generator.
Downloaded the track.
Model made the composition, the instruments, and the vocals.
That is Fully Gen AI.
Partly Gen AI
AI made one layer. A bassline. Strings. A melody sketch.
You recorded your own vocals and instruments over it.
That is Partly Gen AI.
Same label if AI helped with lyric ideas, or a text-to-video model made the visuals on a 100% human audio track.
No Gen AI
Auto-Tune. Pitch correction.
AI mastering.
YouTube says those do not count.
They are production tools, not generation.
Money stays open
AI involvement alone does not block monetization on YouTube.
That is the split from Deezer and TIDAL.
Disclose. The track can still get paid.
What we do
You mark what a human did on upload.
No AI. AI-assisted. Fully AI.
We send that field.
We still deliver Fully AI even if a store will not pay.
0% royalty cut either way.
The stores are writing the rules in public.
Tell the truth once. We send the same file.
Your move: fill the field, then release. The boxes are on what a human did. The wider stamp is on AI label required.