Mastodon Migration8h ago

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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Show threadHaji Mokhtar Stork
@mastodonmigration @jeeynet Something is definitely not right here. Is there a way to handle it legally?
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Show threadNormanDunbar5h ago
@MokhtarStork @mastodonmigration @jeeynet Probably. At a huge cost no doubt.
Show threadmossman3h ago
@MokhtarStork @mastodonmigration @jeeynet this is not new - Rick Beato has been ranting about rampant egregious copyright strike bots on YouTube for a couple of years now. When Danny Sapko, Professor of Rock and Justin Hawkins were also getting hit hard for discussing music tracks on their channels a few months ago they all got together with him to work out how to handle it. He has a lawyer looking after the dozens of strike notices he gets every day...