Effective date: October 19, 2026
Faceless Channel is an AI production crew: the images, the narration voice, most sound and (unless you paste your own) the script are generated by AI models at your direction. Audiences, platforms and the law increasingly expect that to be said out loud. This page is our policy on saying it — in the product, in the file you download, and in what we ask of you.
1. What is AI-generated in a Faceless Channel video
- Images and scenes. Every picture is generated from a text description in the visual style you chose. Nothing is a photograph, archival film or a recording of a real event, even when it depicts a real person, place or event.
- Narration. The voice is synthetic (a licensed text-to-speech voice). It is not a recording of a real narrator, and it is never a clone of a real person's voice unless that person has consented and you have the right to use it.
- Cast. Characters are AI-drawn. When a character is based on a real person, the result is a likeness used for dramatization, not a photograph of them.
- Script, titles, descriptions, tags, captions. Drafted by a language model from your idea, then edited by you. Pasted scripts are yours.
- Sound effects and background sound. Generated or licensed library audio.
2. What we bake into every video
You should not have to remember to disclose. The product does most of it for you:
- An on-screen AI disclaimer. Every new video starts with the disclaimer switched on. The default text is "All characters and scenes are artistic dramatizations and are not the actual people or places." It appears as an overlay (position, timing, size and wording are yours to edit in the Storyboard step).
- On the free plan it cannot be switched off, and the line "Made with FacelessChannel.com" is appended so viewers can see where the video came from. Paid plans may remove the credit; we strongly recommend keeping a disclaimer.
- A disclosure line in the description. The description we draft in the Packaging step includes a sentence stating that the visuals and narration are AI-generated. Keep it when you paste the description into YouTube.
- No real footage, no real recordings. The product does not scrape, download or splice in video or audio of real people. What you publish is a dramatization, and is labelled as one.
3. What you must declare when you publish
Platforms require creators — not tools — to make the declaration. These are the current rules in plain terms; the platforms' own help pages are authoritative and change over time.
YouTube
- When you upload, YouTube asks whether the video contains altered or synthetic content that looks realistic. Answer Yes if your video shows a realistic-looking real person saying or doing something they did not do, alters footage of a real event or place, or shows a realistic scene that did not happen. Most documentary-style videos made here depict real people, places or events, so the honest answer is usually Yes.
- Clearly unrealistic content (animation, obvious illustration, fantasy) and production assistance (script help, captions, colour) do not require the label — but a disclaimer never hurts, and ours is on by default.
- YouTube's rules against inauthentic content apply regardless of labels: mass-produced, repetitive, templated videos with little human input are not eligible for monetisation. Direct your videos — pick the shots, edit the script, choose the voice — and keep the result distinctly yours.
TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and others
- TikTok requires the AI-generated content label on realistic AI images, audio and video, and may apply it automatically. Turn it on yourself when you post.
- Meta (Instagram, Facebook, Threads) asks you to add its AI info label to photorealistic video or realistic-sounding audio that was generated or altered.
- Wherever you publish, keep the on-screen disclaimer in the file and the disclosure sentence in the description. That satisfies the spirit of every current rule even where the platform has no checkbox.
4. What you may not do
Our Terms of Service already prohibit these; this is the short version as it relates to AI disclosure.
- Remove or hide a disclosure in order to pass AI-made material off as real footage, a real recording or a real statement.
- Depict a real person in a way that a reasonable viewer would take as genuine — a fabricated quote, confession, endorsement or act — or clone a real person's voice without their consent.
- Produce content designed to deceive about elections, emergencies, public-health matters or other topics where realistic fakes cause real harm.
- Use the product for sexual content involving real people or anyone under 18, or for harassment of a private individual.
We may remove content and close accounts that break these rules, and we cooperate with platform and legal requests about them.
5. Where the controls are in the product
- Storyboard → AI disclaimer — wording, timing, position, size and style of the on-screen notice (on by default; required on the free plan).
- Packaging → Description — the drafted description carries the AI disclosure sentence. Edit it, but keep it.
- Packaging → Download — the reminder to answer YouTube's "altered or synthetic content" question appears next to the download.
6. Questions
If a platform's rules change or you are unsure how to label a particular video, contact us. We update this page as the rules evolve; the effective date above tells you when it last changed.