Updates to Studio, YouTube Live, new gen AI tools, and everything else announced at Made on YouTube (techcrunch.com)

At its Made on YouTube event, YouTube rolled out a broad slate of creator-focused features that lean heavily on generative and assistive AI: an updated Studio with an inspiration tab, title A/B testing, auto (lip‑synced) dubbing, an AI Ask Studio assistant, collaboration tools (up to five co‑creators), and an open‑beta “likeness” detector to find and flag unauthorized uses of a creator’s face. Live streaming gains AI highlights that auto‑clip best moments into shareable Shorts, new minigames, simultaneous horizontal/vertical broadcasts, and a split‑screen “side‑by‑side” ad format. Shorts gets a custom Veo 3 Fast (Google’s text‑to‑video Veo 3 variant) for motion transfer, style transforms, and object insertion from text prompts, plus remixing, “Edit with AI,” and Lyria 2‑powered music generation that can turn dialogue into soundtracks. These changes matter because they push generative models deeper into everyday creator workflows — automating editing, dubbing, clipping, monetization tagging, and even audience discovery. Technical highlights include model‑based auto‑tagging and timestamping for product mentions, AI suggestions for podcast clips, and an upcoming audio→video podcast conversion tool. Implications for the AI/ML community include opportunities to refine multimodal generation (video, audio, style transfer), improve robustness of face‑detection and consent systems, and address risks around synthetic content, misattribution, and monetization fairness as platform automation reshapes creator economies.