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
  • ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    According to sources, the scheme worked like this: someone fed YouTube videos of Campbell performing to an AI engine, which then replicated her voice and instrumental style. That fabricated music was then distributed across platforms using a company called Vydia.

    Vydia then proceeded to file copyright claims against the original source videos on Campbell’s own YouTube channel, the same videos that had been used to teach the AI to sound like her in the first place.

    Because YouTube’s copyright claim system operates without individual human review of each dispute, Campbell’s channel was effectively handed over to Vydia’s financial control. “I am no longer making money on YouTube,” she said. “Vydia is making money on YouTube off of my own videos of me playing my own banjo in my own backyard with traditional folk songs, some for my own family, over AI-generated music.”

    What was made up ?

    Someone uploaded a Datsun B210 commercial to YT, and was contacted by a person demanding $15000 for the video as they had “claimed” copyright on material “that Nissan had released into the public domain”.

    • you can’t claim copyright on public domain material.
    • Nissan never released the copyright.

    Nevertheless, YT blocked the video for “copyright violation”.