YouTube announces expanded set of tools for creators in latest AI initiative

YouTube is introducing a series of AI-powered tools aimed at reducing creators' workloads.

At its annual Made On YouTube event, the video platform introduced a new AI "creative partner" called Ask Studio, which can provide personalized summaries of things like how a video is performing or what commenters are saying.

Our vision is for Ask Studio to become the ultimate creative partner for every Creator — a trusted companion that Creators turn to first," YouTube wrote in an announcement. "It will provide personalized and actionable strategic insights based on knowledge of you as a Creator, your channel, and how YouTube works.

The announcement comes as social media companies continue to aggressively lean into the AI boom, throwing AI agents and in-platform chatbots at users while integrating more AI-powered tools for creators.

Many creators have been experimenting with various AI tools for years, including ones rolled out by YouTube last year , to help them improve their videos.

But the Google-owned video platform came under fire earlier this year from a handful of creators who expressed concerns that YouTube was making subtle changes to their videos using AI without their permission or knowledge. In response, the platform said it would offer creators the ability to opt-out of the platform’s recent enhancements to some Shorts

On Tuesday, YouTube said it plans to offer creators an AI feature that will ideate potential future videos, coming up with a title, description and AI-generated thumbnail for each, along with a possible video hook and narrative outline. The company added that it will pull from past audience behavior to inform creators on specific reasons for its suggestions.

The company is also expanding on existing features such as automatic dubbing and deepfake detection.

In the coming months, YouTube announced, new lip sync technology should make dubbed languages better match creators' mouth movements. The feature is designed to localize YouTube's content across 20 languages, using AI instead of the human translators and voice actors that some creators traditionally relied on.

Meanwhile, YouTube's tool detecting unauthorized uses of creators' likenesses is now in an open beta for members of the YouTube Partner Program. First announced in December, this likeness detection tool is the platform's response to the growing prevalence of nonconsensual AI-generated deepfakes, often of celebrities or influencers promoting products, that have flooded the internet in recent years.

As for live streams on the platform, YouTube says its new AI-powered highlights will automatically find and clip the "most compelling" moments from each stream to turn into Shorts that creators can then share.

Other features announced Tuesday include expanded A/B testing options for newly uploaded videos and the option to add up to five collaborators to one video.

More AI tools are coming to content creation on the platform as well for YouTube Shorts.

Google's Veo 3 video generator, which will allow creators to turn text prompts into video Shorts, has begun its rollout, and the company is now experimenting with an AI video editor that "transforms your raw footage into a compelling first draft." The platform says it will also start testing a new speech-to-song tool that can remix dialogue into "catchy soundtracks."

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OpenAI reveals the biggest-ever study on how people are using ChatGPT - here are 3 things we've learned

• OpenAI has just revealed the largest ChatGPT usage survey in history.
• According to the findings, 70% of ChatGPT users use it outside of work.
• The survey was conducted by OpenAI's Economic Research team and Harvard economist David Deming

Open AI has just revealed the results of its largest ChatGPT usage study to date, and the insights into how people interact with the AI chatbot are fascinating.

Revealing the study on its blog , OpenAI broke down the results into three key takeaways: Who is using ChatGPT, what they are using it for, and how the use of AI is evolving over time.

The study was conducted by OpenAI's Economic Research team and Harvard economist David Deming for the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

While Future (the parent company of newsrealtime) has conducted its own research in the past that has provided great insight into the AI usage of the broader population , getting information directly from the creators of the world's most popular AI tool gives an excellent insight.

Here are three things we learned from the world's biggest study into ChatGPT and how people use it.

1. Usage gaps are closing

According to OpenAI, the gender gap among users who fully utilize ChatGPT has dramatically closed over the years. Previous research in January 2024 showed that of the users who had names that could be classified as masculine or feminine, 37% had "typically feminine names."

As of July 2025, however, that figure stands at 52%. Now, I have my doubts about how OpenAI can truly determine the gender of a user interacting with ChatGPT, but considering the massive influx with the same criteria, it's fair to say that there is far less of a gender gap related to AI than ever before.

Elsewhere, OpenAI reports that the adoption rate in the lowest-income countries is four times faster than that of the wealthiest.

2. How people use ChatGPT

According to OpenAI, the main reason people use ChatGPT is to get things done, and "three-quarters of conversations focus on practical guidance, seeking information, and writing."

OpenAI breaks down how people use ChatGPT into three categories: Asking, Doing, and Expressing. The study claims nearly half of all ChatGPT queries are "Asking" – where a user interacts with AI to get advice. 40% of usage is "Doing" such as "drafting text, planning, or programming," and 11% of usage is "Expressing", focused on "personal reflection, exploration, and play."

While this breakdown might not surprise you, I think it's interesting to see that writing is in fact the most common work task people use ChatGPT for. Honestly, that doesn't fill me with much hope, especially considering I spend hours and hours of my day writing without help from AI.

3. Mostly play, less work

This part of the study is the most intriguing, in my opinion. In fact, I'm actually pretty shocked at the results. OpenAI claims 70% of people use ChatGPT in a non-work related fashion, with the study stating "ChatGPT helps improve judgment and productivity."

Without this study, I'd have honestly believed most people use ChatGPT in a work-based environment, specifically for mundane tasks that don't require a lot of brain power. Instead, it looks users are interacting with ChatGPT after the office closes and in their spare time, highlighting just how much AI has managed to infiltrate our daily lives.

You can read the full paper with even more statistics on the NBER website . What result from this survey do you find the most interesting? Let us know in the comments below.

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ChatGPT Remembers Everything About You—But Is This A Good Thing? - Dear Media

The gut-punch Black Mirror The episode "Be Right Back," from 2013, imagines a type of ChatGPT AI that consumes a lifetime of texts, posts, and videos to rebuild a dead boyfriend. At first, the replica feels comforting, yet the more perfectly it recalls every detail, the more painfully it exposes what real people are: contradictory, impatient, and sometimes selfish.

That chilling thought sits at the heart of today's debate over ChatGPT, because a tool that never forgets can be a brilliant assistant or a relentless archivist, depending on who is holding the receipts.

Martha's (Hayley Atwell) android boyfriend (Domhall Gleeson) proves that endless memory isn't automatically loving. The same question hovers over ChatGPT: Does total recall empower users or trap them in a data loop they can't escape? The Intersect with Cory Corrine dives straight into that tension. Corrine opens with a reality check, noting that "ChatGPT remembers everything about you, which is part of what makes it powerful." But power, of course, cuts both ways.

ChatGPT enters the mainstream and Gen Z embraces 'data nihilism' ‘

"A colleague of mine on the show noted that on the train last week, every single person that she saw had their laptop open to ChatGPT," Corrine remarked regarding her recent conversation. Tech and culture journalist Taylor Lorenz, one of The Intersect 's two guests, observes a new resignation among young users, calling it "data nihilism." Today's teens and Gen Zers offer a collective shrug, demurring, "What power do I have?" because they're assuming their information is already scattered across the web.

Yet that shrug can mask real risks. "We're left with no choice but to proceed, but proceed with caution," Corrine states.

AI: the risks and rewards

Privacy scholar Dr. Jen King, another guest on The Intersect, reminds listeners that defaults matter. "Those chats are being, for the most part, collected by default and being used to retrain these systems," she says. So, unless users toggle settings, every prompt becomes training fuel. King is a privacy and data policy fellow at the Stanford University Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence .

“I personally use a service called DeleteMe to remove my data from the web,” Lorenz says. King counters with a bigger-picture warning, noting, “The value proposition right now for most of these [AI] tools is really oversold.”

When Corrine asks whether the conveniences outweigh the costs, Lorenz doesn’t slam the brakes. "Try it out, see if it’s useful for something," she suggests. "But just go into it in a mindful way."

King echoes that vibe, stressing that limitless personalization invites manipulation. She flags looming "AI agents and just this increased desire to make personalized experiences for everybody," suggesting that a chatbot that recommends a fire extinguisher might quietly steer users toward the brand that paid for placement.

How to keep your data—and sanity—intact

Proceeding with caution doesn't mean abandoning technology. It means adjusting habits so that ChatGPT serves you rather than surveils you.

• Check the settings first. Turn off chat history if the platform allows; King notes that many systems collect data by default.
• Limit what you share. Lorenz highlights how users "might be actually disclosing a lot more data than they realize" during casual prompts. Sensitive health or financial details deserve an offline notebook, not an AI text box.
• Scrub what's already out there. Services like DeleteMe help, and so does an old-fashioned Google search of your name.
• Advocate for better laws. Lorenz urges listeners to "focus on data privacy and advocate for it" because systemic rules protect everyone.
• Remember the off switch. King keeps location tracking disabled because constant pings "paint a portrait of what you're doing and everywhere you go."

ChatGPT's memory is a black mirror, so use it wisely.

Black Mirror warned that perfect recall can feel inhuman, and Corrine’s panel shows the warning is no longer fiction. ChatGPT can draft résumés, brainstorm trip itineraries, or teach quadratic equations at lightning speed. It can also stockpile heartbreak diaries and late-night confessions for uses that no one has yet imagined. The most intelligent move isn’t panic; it’s mindfulness.

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