According to today's policies on YouTube, your AI-generated content such as cartoons, documentaries, and 3D animations can be monetized, but whether you monetize them or not also relies heavily on the quantity of original, human-generated creativity and value that you bring to the content.
The table below describes what kinds of AI-generated content are likely to be able and unable to be monetized.
How to Successfully Monetize Your AI-Generated Content
To ensure your channel operates in compliance with YouTube monetization policies, take additional attention to these aspects:
· Impose substantial human creativity and value: Leverage AI as an assistant to complement your work, not perform it. YouTube favors video that involves original commentary, original insight, and open-ended transformative editing. Simple stringing together of AI-created segments without your own creative input will likely count as "reused content" and not get monetized.
· Be creative and avoid copyright traps: AI applications sometimes create content using copyrighted work. To be on the safe side:
· Employ cleared-for-commercial-use AI programs and content.
· Exercise caution with AI-synthesized celebrity voices or music sounding too similar to copyrighted tracks, and obtain permission when necessary.
· YouTube has a refined algorithm that can identify repetitive, templatized content, so always present a unique perspective.
· Engage viewers: YouTube is most interested in keeping viewers on the site. They measure your content quality according to the amount of watch time, likes, comments, and shares that your content receives. Produce content that is actually engaging and valuable to your viewers, as this informs YouTube that your channel merits promotion and monetization.
· Adhere to YouTube's specific AI guidelines: As of writing in 2024, YouTube requires content creators to make a declaration when their video contains realistic, AI-manipulated or generated media. Transparency is paramount for there to be trust. There may be penalties and/or the removal of content if these guidelines are not adhered to.
Short answer, your AI-created cartoon or documentary channel doesn't necessarily become immediately ineligible to monetize. The trick is to have AI as your assistant, but not your lone creator.
I hope this clarifies the process of monetizing your channel more.
