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I can hear the ballpoint pens now…

This is going to be a huge legal fight as the terms of service you agree to on their platform is “they get to do whatever they want” (IANAL). Watch them try to spin this as “user preference” that just opted everyone into.

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That’s the rude awakening creators get on these platforms. If you’re a writer or an artist or a musician, you own your work by default. But if you upload it to these platforms, they own it more or less. It’s there in the terms of service.

What if someone else uploads your work?

Section 230 immunity for doing whatever they want, as long as they remove it if you complain.

Do they also remove it from the AI model weights they trained on it while it was uploaded?

No.

What are they going to do though, go to one of the ten competing video hosting platforms?

nonexistent

Yeah, we decided there is only YouTube and only YouTube.

Also, no one else can bear the shear amount of traffic and cost

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