FFS22 Youtube - Filter Sweep Protest

US Will the YT Copyright algorithm claim your filter sweep?      17/02/22

You might think #FFS22 stands for something other than February Filter Sweep 2022, but you'd be wrong. The FFS hashtag has grown as a yearly protest against Youtube's flawed copyright AI system. Many examples of filter sweep demos being claimed by Chemical Brothers publishers or others have been documented and does highlight the rather blunt instrument being used to police copyright infringements on uploaded material. Leading to copyright strikes on content that simply is in no way infringing.

Synthaddict has kicked off the 2022 campaign with his demo of the Hyrdasynth's Filter Types:

The YT algorithm actually hurts musicians and content creators. Shame on Google. I made a Hydrasynth video featuring sweeps, etc. from all the filters in "Filter 1".

There are others, and while it is a small thing, its good to highlight and maybe some pressure will be put on Youtube/Google to refine the process.

We do understand that copyright infringements do need to be policed and that having a human have to figure it out would be possibly one of the worst jobs in existence given the sheer amount of stuff going up to per day (estimates suggest 500hours uploaded every minute). It does need to be tweaked to be more effective and less , well crappy.

SynthAddict goes on to say:

Let's protest the crappy YT algorithm and see what gets "claimed" this year.

Theres a growing list of #FFS22 vids https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/ffs22
last year's list of #FFS entries (2021, first annual) - list compiled by Wagoo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwLGfMGNtzU&list=PLz3XVyJLYs0Uqnr5TwNva6NUIJEhhCe68

 I have 4 entries in there - go enjoy some random synths/filters

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