{
  "platform": "YouTube",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com",
  "checked": "2026-10-27",
  "policies": [
    {
      "topic": "disclosure",
      "status": "allowed_with_conditions",
      "conditions": "Realistic AI content must be disclosed (real people saying/doing things they didn't, altered real events or places, realistic scenes that didn't happen, AI music as the main focus). Non-realistic content and minor aesthetic edits need no disclosure.",
      "quote": "Makes a real person appear to say or do something they didn't do.",
      "source": "https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/14328491",
      "source_updated": null
    },
    {
      "topic": "ai_content",
      "status": "allowed_with_conditions",
      "conditions": "AI-generated or altered content is subject to the same Community Guidelines as everything else. Repeated failure to disclose can bring labels, removal or suspension from the Partner Program.",
      "quote": "we apply our Community Guidelines to all content on YouTube.",
      "source": "https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/14328491",
      "source_updated": null
    },
    {
      "topic": "promotion",
      "status": "prohibited",
      "conditions": "Partner Program monetisation: channels whose videos feel interchangeable can't monetise. Examples include templated or mass-produced videos and 'AI-generated content made with generic or unoriginal templates giving the impression of mass production'. Series with distinct storylines are fine. Policy renamed from 'repetitious' to 'inauthentic content' on 2025-07-15.",
      "quote": "channels where content feels interchangeable from video to video are not allowed to monetize.",
      "source": "https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1311392",
      "source_updated": "2025-07-15"
    }
  ],
  "observed": [
    {
      "date": "2026-10-27",
      "note": "Help page readable by plain HTTP fetch."
    }
  ],
  "domains": [
    "youtube.com"
  ],
  "browser_agent": {
    "status": "unclear",
    "reason": "Automation rules not yet read."
  },
  "ai_posting": {
    "status": "allowed_with_conditions",
    "reason": "Disclose realistic AI content."
  }
}