What YouTube can do if you skip the altered-content disclosure

For a team that ships many generated Shorts, the cost of a missed disclosure is not a label alone. YouTube's help page states the consequence for non-compliant creators: "manual application of a label, or penalties from YouTube, including removal of content or suspension from the YouTube Partner Program."

The ladder as written

Automatic labels too

The How this content was made page adds that YouTube can label undisclosed content proactively, and that creators cannot remove those labels.

A pre-upload gate

A small gate keeps this out of review comments.

• Is any shot a realistic scene that did not occur? Disclose.
• Does the clip make a real person say or do something they did not? Disclose.
• Is music the main focus and generated? Disclose.
• Only captions, color, effects? No disclosure needed per the page.
• Log the answer next to the upload.

Where Sume helps

Sume does not make the call for you. What it gives you is a stable file per output, so the person who uploads can look back at what went in.