Hereās a video of Grand Theft Auto IV. Give it a listen, preferably at the 6:32 mark. Thatās the moment when YouTubeās copyright bots claim a Sonny Rollins Quartet jazz song plays. Do you hear it?
I tried. I tried hard to hear it. And all I heard was sirens. I bet thatās all you heard, tooāas if our impressions of YouTubeās automated flawed copyright/content-ID system werenāt bad enough.
This copyright claim recently hit YouTuber Taltigolt and left him wondering just what YouTubeās bots are listening for. āSad thing is, I acknowledged it, thinking it was accurate before I even looked,ā he told me over e-mail this week.
Hereās the claim:
And hereās the Sonny Rollins Quartet playing St. Thomas, the song that is supposedly in the video.
That Sonny Rollins song is in GTA IV. It just doesnāt usually sound like six minutes of police sirens. Go figure.
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