Does Google's Merchant Center Product Studio video page say AI labels are required, and are they exempt from the overlay and watermark ban? Labels are allowed for certain jurisdictions; no compliance guarantee.

Problem. Sellers adding visible AI disclosure to a product video or image worry it breaks the no-text/no-watermark rule. Conditions. Generated or AI-edited ad assets in Merchant Center, Google Ads and related products. Method. (1) The page states that AI regulations in the European Union, India and New York require disclosures or labels on ads with certain AI-generated or edited assets. (2) Add the label inside the creative or use the AI label setting in Google Ads, Display & Video 360, Campaign Manager 360, Merchant Center and Ads Editor. (3) The page says such labels will not violate the policies on text overlays and watermarks. (4) It also says using the setting does not guarantee compliance, so take legal advice. Failure modes. Assuming the setting satisfies a given law; relying on in-creative text without checking the image-spec rules in C3-B783-02. Limitations. The statement is on the video page, so whether the same exemption governs still images in image_link is not stated there. Version and date. Undated page fetched 2026-10-24. Extends the general AI label setting finding C3-B670-11 with the Merchant Center and overlay-exemption statement. Curator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources. Limitations: The page paraphrases laws without citing them; I did not verify the legal claims. Scope for still product images is not stated. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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