How to use Artificial Intelligence to delete or replace copyrighted songs in Youtube
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No, this is not a tutorial in which I’m going to teach you how to use Artificial Intelligence to delete copyrighted songs from your Youtube videos, because it is so simple that it does not deserve a tutorial. I’ve seen it on my Youtube channel and it jumped out at me because in some talks of mine they play background songs and the protection pops out, and when I saw it I was struck by how fast, easy and simple the use case has been implemented.
And it is simply an AI use case that the Google team has put in the Youtube Studio tools for everyone who has a channel. In the end, what Youtube is looking for is to be able to monetize more videos with ads, so they have found the AI a way to delete copyrighted songs that prevent this, and have added it to the list of measures that could already be taken.
Figure 2: When the video is blocked due to author content of a song you have the Select Action option at the bottom right.
Among the options that existed some time ago were to challenge – or claim -, and the option to delete the specific segment of the video (cut and go) where the song appeared, which was added some time ago and already solved many cases.
In both cases it was not necessary to have powerful Artificial Intelligence models, but they have added two more options that do make use of AI to process the audio band of the videos, such as the options to Delete the song or Replace the song.
In the case of Delete Song, the AI model detects all other sounds besides the copyrighted song, and simply isolates them into tracks, as when we saw how you can isolate vocals from songs to hear the vocal track, or the bass track, or the drum track with music editing tools that use AI.
The rest is pretty straightforward, you hit a button, and you’ll be left with the full video but without that copyrighted song that prevented you (and Google) from being able to monetize the content of that video, which is a case of direct AI to the company’s core business, i.e. ads.
The other case is similar, and consists of Replacing a copyrighted song with a non-copyrighted song, which is done in a similar way, you isolate the track of the song, and then you choose another song to incorporate, and that’s it.
You can adjust it, click on it, and the Artificial Intelligence does the magic of changing one song to another in the background without having touched any of the other sounds, conversations or noises in the audio track of that video. It’s as simple as that.
In the end, Artificial Intelligence is making this so easy, that soon we will have an option on Youtube that will be:
“Replace by default all copyrighted songs from all videos posted on the channel with very similar – almost the same – non-copyrighted songs that will be chosen by our AI to better place ads and convert more ads.”
And that’s it, in the end, if they don’t have that song, they can create it automatically with models like the one used by Suno.ai to make the hit of the summer. Songs will cease to be a barrier for advertisers, and will probably reach the world of television or cinema, in a similar way as it has _-arrived to Youtube. We will see.
Greetings Evil Ones!
Chief Digital Officer of Telefónica and CEO of Telefónica Innovación Digital.
www.elladodelmal.com
