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The Artificial Intelligence That Deleted A Century
Tom Scott
A speculative-fiction video by Tom Scott, framed as coming from a future, about an AI called Earworm that enforces copyright so aggressively that humanity ends up forgetting a century of pop culture. It is animated and narrated as part of his series of videos from a future.
HN points to it in discussions of AI copyright enforcement and badly specified AI goals, and recommends it alongside his other fiction.
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