Just a heads up, if you buy something through our links, we may get a small share of the sale. It’s one of the ways we keep the lights on here. Click here for more.YouTube recently launched an AI-powered feature that enables select users to “restyle” licensed music tracks for use in Shorts. This feature, part of the “Dream Tracks” experiment introduced in November, allows eligible users to select from a curated list of licensed tracks and customize their background music by entering a prompt. This customization might involve changing the genre or mood of the track—such as turning a pop song into a rock version — while keeping the original lyrics and vocals intact. Each restyled track credits the original artist and indicates to viewers that the track was modified with AI. A limited number of creators with access can enter a prompt to change various aspects of a song, such as its mood or genre, and the expansion of YouTube’s Dream Track AI feature will generate a modified 30-second soundtrack. The “Dream Tracks” feature also includes an AI-generated voiceover option. Users can select voices from well-known artists like Charlie Puth, Charli XCX, Demi Lovato, and T-Pain to add distinctive narration to their content. This AI-powered customization aims to enhance the creative possibilities for Shorts, giving users more ways to personalize their videos and potentially increasing viewer engagement. While currently limited to a small group of testers, YouTube’s restyling tool could become a powerful asset as it competes with…YouTube is testing AI-generated music remixes for Shorts