YouTube AI persona policy: legal advice and politics

Under the rule, AI personas giving legal advice or interpreting laws are not allowed to monetize. Politics is named as a covered topic but with no example in the section we read.

Source: YouTube's monetization policy page, read 2026-10-01. This is a summary of one vendor page, not legal advice.

Where do legal and politics sit in the rule?

The page says its examples are not exhaustive. The table below covers the tooling side: how Sume avatars are made.

How does a Sume avatar channel relate?

Sume's avatar docs describe three ways to make an avatar, shown above, and the avatar video docs turn one into a script-driven clip. None of that tells you whether a channel falls under the policy; the script and framing do.

Ask of each script: does the persona present itself as a human expert advising viewers on a listed topic?

What should I do before publishing?

Reread the policy, then audit each script for lines that advise viewers on laws or politics. For general channel setup, see AI avatar for YouTube videos.