John Grisham Accuses YouTube Over 80,000-View AI Audiobook of 'The Widow'
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Updated · Gizmodo · May 25
John Grisham Accuses YouTube Over 80,000-View AI Audiobook of 'The Widow'
3 articles · Updated · Gizmodo · May 25
John Grisham said YouTube is “complicit” in leaving up an unauthorized AI-narrated version of The Widow that the New York Times reported had drawn about 80,000 listens.
YouTube said the video remains online because it has not received a takedown request and that it does not proactively police copyright violations.
Content ID, YouTube’s long-running copyright detection system, struggles with AI audiobook uploads because the narration does not match licensed audio files and the underlying text can be slightly altered.
That leaves authors and publishers to pursue manual takedowns, highlighting a broader gap in how platforms enforce copyright against AI-generated versions of books.
As AI can both pirate books and create new art, what new rules are needed to protect human creativity?
Could mandatory licensing, forcing AI firms to pay for training data, be the ultimate solution to the copyright wars?