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
As long as fake claims like this don’t get punished, these things would continue.
This is fraud, plain and simple. It baffles me how nobody is calling it what it is, and use funny words like trolling. Trolls don’t actively defraud other people of their rightful income from copyrighted works.
It’s easy to add rules to dmca takedowns, so I wonder why Google wouldn’t implement any safeguards in YouTube.
Because Google’s interest is in making it easier for companies to make money, not individuals.