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Better yet, start playing copyrighted music so that YouTube will automatically remove the video. (Cops are known to do this to prevent videos of them from being spread online.)

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There's only one problem: You have to pick the right song that will actually get the video taken down by YouTube rather than just get the ad revenue sent to the copyright holder. YouTube is filled with videos of cops failing to pick the right song to stop a recording.

Hahaha, what a dystopian reality! Related to NPCs, this is like having a sonic weapon in a video game, but its behavior is flaky; you have to load it with the correct bullet.

I haven't tried this idea, yet, however: it should be possible to use mixdown -> stem AI/ML models to completely remove the "recognizable" part of the song to an algorithm, leaving only the "vocals" portion.

I know experimentally youtube nearly immediately deletes/unlists a few artists' songs, which i suppose one could use to test the theory.

Definitely possible; for example: https://github.com/deezer/spleeter

Yes, this (spleeter) is specifically what i was thinking of. I have to try it again, the version i have is a couple years old and there is a lot of artifacting. I also happen to have a fairly large library of stems, which i could probably use to train the model some more.

YouTube will just monetize the video for whoever holds the performance rights for the music instead of taking it down.

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