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uhh, no

Reasonable people can believe they have a legitimate ownership right when they petition YouTube for copyright enforcement for AI-generated work. The courts might eventually disagree, but that's a different thing than knowingly making a fraudulent misrepresentations to YouTube for financial benefit. This difference makes the proposed behavior criminal fraud. I highly recommend not risking twenty years of prison time for like maybe a couple hundred dollars in ad revenue.



It's not knowing misrepresentation. You AI-generated the same video, so how were you to know it wasn't yours? Just don't show them this HN thread.

Besides, nobody's actually checking




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