Comment by tardedmeme
9 hours ago
What if you claim it first against them? You wouldn't be punished for a false claim, since they're not.
9 hours ago
What if you claim it first against them? You wouldn't be punished for a false claim, since they're not.
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