YouTube AI error costs creator his channel over alleged link to Japanese account (piunikaweb.com)

This makes me think of Hank Hill asking his Laotian neighbor: "So are you Chinese or Japanese?"

We often make fun at stupid European regulations, like AI ones, but it is typically in such a case that it is useful. So to ensure that it could not happen when companies like that have such a monopoly that users have no power.

AI why? Where’s the proof that AI was involved in this?

How many such stories we have to come across before we as a community come together? Apple and Google's monopolies have to be broken. It's insane that your livelihood depends upon the mercy of one organization.

YouTube needs some competition.

If an automated system is making the decision to cancel a customer's account, then companies should be required to give cancelled customers a way to speak to a human about the inevitable false positives.

X needs to launch a rival service.

This is a very difficult situation for creators. It is a hassle, but spreading videos out across different platforms seems to be the only viable solution. This is not great as some platforms bring more revenue than others.

What's up with the TeamYouTube account advising him to delete his X post for security reasons because the post contains a channel ID? Like channel ID is not public information and some secret private key or something?

https://x.com/TeamYouTube/status/1985378776562168037

The reason this happened will probably never be revealed, but I predict it's probably because the channel was uploading videos through a VPN, and wound up sharing an IP address with someone who was using the same VPN for piracy.

AI is cheap and works 90% of the time. Loosing some creators is no problem for YouTube.

When we have a competitor only then it will be a problem for YouTube.