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This one takes the cake.🤷

Seems like a new scam is AI companies making infringement claims against the musicians they scraped for sounding like themselves.

Turns out it works because the claims are adjudicated by, you guessed it, AI agents.

"Because YouTube’s copyright claim system operates without individual human review of each dispute, Campbell’s channel was effectively handed over [to the AI company.]"

https://rudevulture.com/ai-company-clones-musicians-voice-then-copyright-strikes-her-own-songs/

h/t @jeeynet https://framapiaf.org/@jeeynet/116359059101502550

AI Company Clones Musician’s Voice, Then Copyright-Strikes Her Own Songs

Folk musician Murphy Campbell found herself at the center of a major ordeal when an entity called Timeless Sounds IR uploaded AI-generated imitations of her music to every major music platform, then used her recordings to strip her of her own income. According to sources, the scheme worked like this: someone fed YouTube videos of ... Read more

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@mastodonmigration @jeeynet They put in the incentives to benefit from crime, and then act surprised that people deploy robots to take advantage of those at an industrial scale.

This artist is actually the exception. Only those with large enough audiences are.

The thieves will apologise publicly, but their bots keep scraping material even while they do so. Now they have the means to copyright claim everything, and everyone. They trust you’ll just take it.

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