Ever since the official Nvidia DLSS 5 video dropped on the YouTube channel, the gaming community has been super skeptical of the GPU maker’s decisions. But something hilarious has conspired in the meantime, which has raised quite a lot of eyebrows.
In an incredible turn of events, Nvidia’s DLSS 5 video got copyright claimed and taken down by YouTube’s systems. The funny part is that it was not some conspiracy on the part of haters; YouTube’s own dumb copyright system was the reason it happened.
The perpetrator has been traced back to an Italian broadcasting channel owned by Cairo Communication on YouTube named La7. The free-to-air channel used segments from the original Nvidia DLSS5 announcement video, but was somehow able to claim copyright strikes on the source.
YouTube’s copyright system is broken
The whole situation highlights how broken YouTube’s copyright systems are. Claims of channels being shut down out of the blue due to some obnoxious copyright claims are not far and few in between.
As of writing this article, the original Nvidia DLSS 5 video has been restored, but that is because Nvidia has a global presence and authority. Youtubers have long since complained about the website’s issues.
The team at YouTube has done very little to actually address them. What happened with Nvidia should be a wake-up call to their loopholes, because others can follow suit to misuse the broken copyright system.
Even content creators are affected by copyright claims
YouTube also has an issue with support, and it has been the center of several complaints from well-known content creators. Channels such as The Act Man and Destin Legarie have reported that the copyright claims have also affected their own videos, which should’ve been covered under fair-use policies.
If this happens to smaller YouTube channels, it might become very hard to regain control without vocal resources. YouTube support, for the most part, is known to be really slow in taking action. Users on social media are taking delight in calling out Nvidia’s tryst with AI as well as YouTube’s mess-up.
Speculations are that the Nvidia DLSS 5 video makes games look like they have an uncanny valley AI filter on them, and it’s a reason why it got copyright struck. But still, it is funny to speculate how broken the checks are since the original source was struck and not the video that borrowed from it.
