YouTube lets you request removal of AI content that simulates your face or voice

This risks eventually degenerating into a mostly-indiscriminate process like DMCA takedowns, since it's costly to verify likeness, intent, and all that. They'll probably ironically end up using AI for verification, which could be defeated with enough skill or organization.

Why can't I just monetize and steal all the ad revenue if they use my face or voice, just like copyright holders can?

Unfortunately this will simply be abused to take down videos that aren't AI generated, but which individuals consider disfavourable to their reputation. YouTube has made it clear they're not interested in providing a way to mediate conflicting claims in a non-Kafkaesque manner with the way they handle copyright claims.

I understand YouTube is in a very difficult position with that system, so I'm not even expressing anger, but I'm not hopeful that they're going to actually wade into mediating these kinds of claims sensibly either. You need to build institutional skills and processes and a culture of commitment to doing the hard yards on resolving these kinds of difficult issues, and YouTube has stayed away from doing that this long...

This is heading nowhere.

Online identity verification is NOT a solved problem. We will see fake take down request in no time.

Like the current system, this one is not going to help the average user at all. This is for people (or other entities) with money and power.

Every person in the world has a doppelganger out there somewhere. Now we can all meet them through the magic of takedown requests.

We know it’s gonna be abused by identity trolls, political movements, business competitors, big and small.

Good. And good timing.

People learned through years that ads are about sales, not products, and they are annoying. Now they will learn that speech is about what you ought to think, not what is true, and it’s full of bs. As my local ethnicity says: “kup suz buk suz” - many word crap word”. Sudden wisdom from a smaller culture.

AI will finally expose our built-in vulnerability and make it explicit. It was so default for millenia that you probably don’t even think about it, but now think about it: listening to voices long enough makes one coherent with what they say. Imagine your door lock giving up if someone pulls at the handle long enough. Or your dog growling at you after listening to a series of podcasts. Or you changing your views because Celeb Smart said something fifty hundred times. It’s been working all this time in favor of non-closing mouths, all they needed was your attention and enough time.

This had a cool (probably decisive) effect in primitive groups, because easy synchronization. But we are clearly, fundamentally dysfunctional in the internet era.

Should be a by default opt out. Why do I even need to request this.

And political satire?

Is political satire allowed?