I’ve seen videos with mirrored videos )everything being on the opposite side) and audio speed it up and squeaky. I’ve read this is supposed to be a loophole around copyright or something but my question is how?
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YouTube’s copyright analyses video and audio and sees if it matches to anything else.
Mirrored videos work as long as the copyright bot can’t defect that. Nowadays I see YouTubers playing with transparency and color grading, as well of course as frequently stopping videos (either pauses or blank screens).
Speeding up audio also makes it harder for the copyright bot to analyze the song, especially as bits of info are actually lost in the process, so less information the bot has to work with.
The bot looks at the data that is the video, and looks if it finds a video with the same data.
Thing is tho, if you mirror it, the data is different, so the bot doesn’t recognize it.
It’s 00001111 vs 11110000. In reality it’s not as obviously mirrored either, but the bot compares the info and sees if it matches, and if it doesn’t it doesn’t get flagged.
Most (old school) copyright detection algorithms search for exact matches to the copyrighted work, so by making it recognizable to humans but not an exact 1:1 match to the original work you can get it to be a false negative for copyright infringement.
However, I mentioned that it’s old school copyright detection because newer algorithms know the common tricks and will search for mirrored visuals and edited audio, and AI is making it increasingly difficult to use the slight edits. It’s why sometimes the video will be cropped *and* mirrored, and the audio will fluctuate between being too high and too low, to try and get around the more advanced algorithms.
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