The AI horror story for musicians gets worse. An AI scammer not only imitated Murphy Campbell, and released deepfake impersonations of her work—the scammer then made copyright claims on her actual music. So she got demonetized on YouTube.

After this story went viral, YouTube backed down. But these scams are proliferating rapidly. Just in the last months, AI impersonations have started showing up everywhere.

The tech companies empowering this callous destruction of the creative economy ought to face consequences. But the same company running YouTube is also investing hundreds of billions in AI. Do you see the conflict of interest?