YouTube 's rumored new policies regarding ad injection I believe is a violation of copyright of my own videos uploaded to the platform, on this channel and the other channels I own.
It is modifying my videos, without my
permission, and without any legal reasoning, for purposes of profiting
off of viewership for which I receive no cut as I do not monetize any of
my channels. My videos are not paid ads (unless specifically specified,
which hasn't happened yet), and video injection is violating what I
have produced by turning parts of it into an ad.
This has
potential for generative AI to become involved and alter the videos more
significantly, depending on how quickly ad blockers block injected ads.
Ads are highly repetitive and easy to spot. They're designed to grab
attention and they're essentially a pattern, all things which make
computer vision algorithms easy to spot the ads. The only way around
this would be to turn the video in its entirety into one hidden ad,
doable with AI as it progresses; this is an absolute violation of
ownership of my video, as I consider this copying and heavily modifying
my video without my consent, and likely using data that wasn't consented
to to train the AI either. It has not come to this, but it may
inevitably go to this.
Whether or not YouTube would consider this
to be a violation of TOS in uploading videos to the platform, I plan to
take action if the platform continues with this. What this will look
like I am not sure, but I've been considering setting all my videos to
private, moving to and advertising here, a competitor platform like
Twitch, or uploading videos to fight against the advertisement policies.
I
understand the challenges of running an otherwise free service for
millions of users, to attempt to gain some amount of funding; reminder
that YouTube is owned by Google/Alphabet, one of the largest companies
in the world with insane amounts of funding from their various other
services which can and have helped maintain YouTube; this doesn't give
an excuse however to damage the platform in the name of a chance of
profits when it appears to be already well funded and is designed to
have no other realistic competition. Youtube's team needs to realize
that this platform has formed part of the world wide internet from its
starting in the 2000s to today, and continues to be leading, not because
it's adding features from other apps, but because it was the leading
platform to set the standard of online videos, and allow people to
express themselves freely or see what others have to offer with no
restriction.
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