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“Broadcasters such as Fox Sports, which holds the rights to the World Series, have tried their hardest to squelch these pirate streams—but many continue to slip through the cracks. And they aren’t just on sketchy sites in the web’s backwoods—they’re appearing directly inside mainstream social networks like Twitter, livestreamed to tens of thousands of viewers at a time.” The takeaway from this excerpt? It’s The Wild West in the world of streaming – only the outlaws are agile AI systems glitching around a cyber frontier beyond the reach of Sheriff Copyright.

While Fox Sports is frantically chasing down these virtual desperados, they just can’t seem to keep up. These digital banditos are popping up faster than popcorn at a movie theater. But they’re not just sticking to the off-beat, uncharted regions of the World Wide Web. No, these audacious AI miscreants have taken to large platforms. Believe it or not, they have taken to places like Twitter, feeding their ill-gotten broadcasting to tens of thousands of eager viewers.

The brazen audacity of these AI technologies can’t be overstated as they defy copyright laws with all the subtlety of a bull in a china shop. But let’s not forget the spectators, the Twitter users who watch these live streams. Is it their fault that they’re willingly served prime sporting action on a silver platter by some rogue AI? It’s almost akin to blaming the fox for stealing the chicken when the farmer left the coop door wide open.

Also interestingly, the blame is partly on the tech that is supposedly intended to protect the rights of broadcasters. Machine learning software designed to detect copyrighted content is a tool of much discussion, but it appears to have a bit of a ‘selective’ blindness. The wonderfully flawed irony of failed technology attempting to control sophisticated technology.

Regardless of where you stand on the ethics of this digital tug-of-war, one thing remains clear: As the sophisticated software systems continue to adapt at a staggering pace, it’s fast becoming a quixotic task trying to pin them down. The smell of a technological revolution is wafting through the air, bringing a stiff breeze of change to the realm of broadcast rights and copyright. As the dust settles over in this new frontier, it definitely leaves one wondering where the trail will lead next.

While broadcasters attempt to wrangle control, AI is running wild and free across the open plain of live streams. So, here’s to the maverick AI systems creating good old-fashioned chaos in the not-so-wild West of the World Wide Web.

Read the original article here: https://www.wired.com/story/livestream-ai-copyright-battles/