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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Video copying/theft on YouTube -- AWFUL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lauren Weinstein)
Thu Jul 23 00:56:36 2026
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:47:10 -0700
From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>
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Video copying/theft on YouTube -- AWFUL
The amount of video copying on YouTube is extraordinary. Much of it
is in the short videos. One example: I was looking for comparisons of
airport jet bridges vs. air stairs. I quickly was offered a seemingly
endless number of apparently AI-generated short videos each with
different images but identical script AI-generated voice overs.
Somewhere the original video by the original creator likely exists,
but it's buried under all the copied AI-slop. Why should creators even
bother when Google lets this sort of rampant view-stealing take place?
Of course Google doesn't care since to them a click is a click. Awful.
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