Misaligned Platform Incentives Fuel AI Copycat Channels

Creators argue that platforms like YouTube reward copying and extraction more than originality, and AI is accelerating the problem. The result is a surge of imitation channels that mass-reproduce content and even use AI-generated faces to impersonate original creators.

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