Why can’t I generate AI interactions from YouTube videos anymore?

Jason Liu -

YouTube recently updated its privacy and compliance policies, no longer allowing users to generate content with AI directly from YouTube videos. Therefore, AI-generated interactions with YouTube videos are no longer supported in WeVideo Interactivity.  Don’t worry: there are still ways to use AI Interactions with YouTube content!  See some options for workarounds below.  

Workaround options

There are two options for you to utilize the AI-generated interactions while building your interactive videos in Interactivity.

Option 1: Use WeVideo to manage and publish your videos

AI-generated interactions are also available for the interactive videos built with videos hosted on WeVideo. Please follow the steps below to upload your videos to WeVideo and add them to Interactivity:

Switch to the Multimedia Creation space and select Create.

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Select Import or drag and drop the media file into the editor.

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Drag the imported media to the timeline below. You can also edit or trim the media clips with the editor. Please see these articles for more information about editing media in WeVideo.

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After editing the media clips, click Export on the top right of the screen and adjust the export settings if needed. Then click Export again to start exporting the project.

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To generate AI interactions, the video must have subtitles attached to it. If you do not have a subtitle file for the video, you can click Subtitles and select Auto-generate subtitles to generate the subtitles for this video.

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Select Interactivity and click Open in new interactive video.

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Click the Generate Interactions button to generate questions with the AI tool. Please see this article for more information about AI-generated interaction.

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Option 2: Upload captions to WeVideo for YouTube videos you own

If you are the owner of the YouTube videos, you can download your caption file in .VTT format from YouTube and manually upload the captions into WeVideo Interactivity to use the AI-generated interactions with the uploaded captions. Once you have the caption files, please follow the steps below to import them into Interactivity.


Select Interactive Videos and click Create interactive video.

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Select YouTube as the video host and find the video you want to use.

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Click Customize to switch to the Captions tab and upload the caption files to this video. WeVideo Interactivity supports captions in  VTT and SRT format. Click Done to save the change.

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Switch to the Interactions tab and click the Generate Interactions button to generate questions with the AI tool. Please see this article for more information about AI-generated interaction.

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