YouTube is using AI to police copyright--to the tune of 2 billion in payouts

Exactly how that breaks down between the likes of, say, Universal Music Group and up-and-coming artists, YouTube doesn't say. In recent months, Content ID has been updated to use smarter fingerprinting that can detect tricks like stretching a video's aspect ratio, flipping the image horizontally, or slowing down the audio. It's also been plugged into Google's machine learning algorithms.