I'm willing to admit I've been tricked a few times. I go onto YouTube, excited to watch a trailer for a new movie. It could be Superman or One Battle After Another, but when I click on a video, I'm not shown the trailer, but some gimmicky fan video made by AI. Every time this happens to me, I am pissed. I'm pissed because I didn't get what I wanted, I'm pissed because I watched some slop, and I'm pissed because it screws up my algorithm. If I was a movie studio, I'd be even more mad because the clicks my product should have gotten are wasted on a cheap fake. And because they're using AI to mess with my copyrighted materials. Well, movie studios are mad about this. But instead of attacking the copyright, they're asking YouTube to pay them the ad revenue made from these AI views. So it's like they never lost any of these clicks in the first place. Now, I think it would be much better for society if they just sued these companies, mainly because this makes studios feel like they don't care about their own copyrights as long as it makes them some money. But I also understand that thousands, maybe more, people worldwide are making these trailers. A studio sending legalese to all of them might cost them millions of dollars. This is an opportunity to actually make money and to force a lace-like YouTube to stop the bleeding. Is this really...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - 3 days ago