It would be trained to recognize despite distortions, as a human can.
A huuuuuge percentage of youtube videos have copyrighted material in them, and a lot of them come under fair use. There is also the instance of copyrighted music or something being uploaded, but the owner wants it to stay up for exposure. Youtube is already a huge money drain though, so I doubt Google would waste resources crawling through god knows how many hours of video that gets uploaded every day.
I don't think political dissent is an issue. The level of complexity involved in automating video removals for political reasons is ridiculous. By the time anyone managed to do that, I doubt Youtube would even still be a thing. It would at the very least be in a different format than it is now. If there was enough manpower to watch every second of footage uploaded to Youtube and report it for political dissent, how many of those reports would be inaccurate? I am guessing it would be a lot of them, so I highly doubt we would be able to get a machine to do it.
A huuuuuge percentage of youtube videos have copyrighted material in them, and a lot of them come under fair use. There is also the instance of copyrighted music or something being uploaded, but the owner wants it to stay up for exposure. Youtube is already a huge money drain though, so I doubt Google would waste resources crawling through god knows how many hours of video that gets uploaded every day.
I don't think political dissent is an issue. The level of complexity involved in automating video removals for political reasons is ridiculous. By the time anyone managed to do that, I doubt Youtube would even still be a thing. It would at the very least be in a different format than it is now. If there was enough manpower to watch every second of footage uploaded to Youtube and report it for political dissent, how many of those reports would be inaccurate? I am guessing it would be a lot of them, so I highly doubt we would be able to get a machine to do it.
I don't think fair use is at issue here. I'm more worried about a system that can intelligently recognize political dissent and snuff it out before it even begins.