Copyright and AI do not mix.

Aug 22, ’25

In his video with a bit of a misleading title This Record Label Is Trying To SILENCE Me Rick Beato talks about a new issue with AI.

YouTube has to check more videos for copyright infringement than is humanly possible, and therefore the process is automated. Until recently, that was fine. If you, the owner of copyrighted material, found your rights violated, you filed a claim, YouTube gave the creator a chance to dispute for a limited time, and that was that – I’m oversimplifying here, obviously.

This system breaks, when a copyright holder, like a label, uses AI to overwhelm creators with fraudulent copyright claims. It gets especially problematic when the AI is let loose and allowed to file claims without human oversight, but apparently unable to respect local law, like the US system of Fair Use. Effectively, the AI will then file so many claims for decades old videos that it becomes humanly impossible to review or dispute them, and thereby kill a channel.

The problem here is not AI, it’s the label letting AI loose without human oversight. This is what AI-regulation should be dealing with, and we all know that AI-regulation is not a thing under Trumps rule.

Update, Feb 23, 2026: The EU AI-Act categorises AI by risk level: minimal, limited, high, and illegal. AI-systems that impact people’s livelihood go into the high-risk category and require human oversight. Does that mean the label using AI to flag content needs to add human oversight, or YouTube, which doesn’t even use AI to suspend a channel? Or is this situation a loophole? If you care to, you can check the risk level with the EU’s tool to assess Ai features.