Exposing a Content Thief Stealing Videos with AI

Youtube is about to get a lot more dystopian

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American Bar article that cites ChatGPT

Thaler v. Perlmutter case

Googles Stance on AI

My original video:

My other video they stole edited footage from:

Sylvain's Deviantart the AI ripped off

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Vividity
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Novadrome
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Normally I put footage credits here, but since the AI used footage I already edited I'm not going to credit it, instead go check out these awesome Mario Karters

Abney
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Matthias

[Borgcow]

So let me get this straight: people are cheating…at exposing cheaters…and you’re exposing them. Wow what a world

[DrZalmat]

as a teacher: Yes, that is EXACTLY how we feel, often followed by "if You copy, then at least don't also copy the spelling errors!"

[FoxerTails]

That fact that we have two instances of this happening means there's a high chance there are many other AI copycat videos running amuck just waiting to be revealed. Sadly, I don't think YouTube will do anything about it.

[Caddylily]

I just love how the AI just gave up trying to say his name and just went with “Ha”.

[IDESTROYER]

If only YouTube had a way for users to review and rate content.

[GAnimeRO]

4:01 Hadrich, habrich, the habrick, hamrik, hedrik, after Hebert, Eric Rick, the Hab. Haa.
lmao

[spencerjohnson]

As a former teacher, yeah, that's pretty spot on for how it comes across when students copy poorly.

[NoraDDSM-pysd]

Plagiarism is like cheating, and this dude tried to cheat with as little of the human element as possible.

[Sylvain-T]

Dude thanks to you for giving me creddits (i'm the artist who have done the toad used in his miniature), hope youtube will be doing something for you and the others creators that have been in similar situations, like, giving you back their vews

[iquemedia]

2:56 bro this is 10 year old me trying to reword a wikipedia article for school lmao

[Recarsonated]

The abuse of synonyms is crazy

“Micro-turbos” LMFAOOO

[theelectricneko]

Love how the AI says "Merio Car 64" sometimes

[preyo]

AI: throw the script through a thesaurus and call it good.

[kulrigalestout]

That voice is either TTS, or perfectly mimics the style used by the "10 surprising facts about cats (#7 will destroy your understanding of reality)" types of creators. I swear I've heard that voice talk about cats before.

[DavidWonn]

4:53 Wow! I recognize this footage because it is from my own DexDrive save from decades ago, truncated just before I cleared the wall. Karl Jobst used the footage under fair use at 14:37 on one of his vids (linked from one of my playlists.) Obviously you used it under fair use as well, but the AI vid's usage is dubious at best.

And this wouldn't be the first time my stuff has been taken. One web site in the 90s took my Mario 64 rabbit glitch and translated it into Spanish word for word. Nintendo Power took my Frappe Snowland lap skip discovery when I posted it on their BBS. These incidents were partially influential in why I made my own site, to help give credit where it is due.

But even that didn't stop thieves. One of my Smash Bros. 4 discoveries was stolen in more recent years, among many of the older SMB2 findings but that's a story for another day.

[Noxedwin]

My heart goes out to Eric Hamsandwich for the besmirchment of his name.

[obsidianchao]

I’ve noticed this too. There’s too many videos with voiceovers that just don’t sound right… dialect and mannerisms that don’t sound human.

[Darxide]

You should definitely mention that people shouldn't brigade the thief's video because posting any comments, even negative ones, and giving downvotes do nothing but increase a video's engagement factor and make it more likely to be recommended to others. All you do is help a video by posting a comment and voting.

[David-Stanley]

I've run into a lot of AI as narration on videos. Even if those are made legitimately, it's still very offputting as pronunciations are often wrong and the emotions are flat. It makes the whole thing feel lazy. The video you found is on another level and I hope they get smacked down promptly.

[Wario_from_Super_Mario]

This is kinda infuriating. On YouTube nowadays there is a chance that your video gets stolen either by low effort reaction channels who add nothing to the original video and just copy and paste it next to their face cam without crediting nobody or it gets ripped off by AI. Both of these methods of content theft are getting more and more common by the day and YouTube is doing very little to prevent or reverse theft.