It’s a great start to the morning when you awake to emails from YouTube Legal Support informing you that the channel that’s been harassing you for the past week has been geoblocked along with its content. It can take a long, long time and take a few games of email ping-pong but I’ve got it down to a fine art now. But it does take a little time and the process should be easier, quicker and more transparent in accordance with the U.K. Online Safety Act 2023.
During the livestream last night, the loon had uploaded another AI video mocking me and my health issues, which is nice, so I had to go through the process of reporting that before I went to bed. They had also tagged everyone who contributed to the livestream in that video in some pathetic attempt to get attention and possibly to turn those folk against me.
I imagine this person will create another YouTube channel and start again, because that’s what usually happens and I’ll be ready to list the various defamations and infractions of UK law they commit in order to have the material claimed, taken down or geoblocked.
These are the games you get to play if you are an utter nobody like me on the Internet. If I get this, imagine what more notable or successful people have to deal with? Also, this is nothing compared to what women are subjected to on a daily basis if they dare to have an internet presence.
YouTube via Google allows you to have 100 accounts linked to account and this allows the stalker or harasser create thousands of pseudonyms relatively easily. It makes zero sense that they allow this, but here we are.
So again, if you see some weird video featuring me created by AI, just ignore and it walk on by. If you see some strange edit of my words twisted into a narrative I’ve never endorsed, again, walk on by.
It’s all digital gibberish and expect even more of it…
What a great time to be alive, eh? 
So if you’re dealing with a stalker or a troll on YouTube and they are using your content (your image, your video, your voice or your name) against you then you might want to consider these strategies to fight back.
Use the copyright reporting tool under the “Content Detection” tab to report infringing content if they’ve used video or audio from your videos. You will need to know what original material they’ve used and precisely note the timestamps of the infringement and the relative supporting material. If you have trouble detecting whereabouts that material is, you can use AI systems such as Grok to search through the transcripts of your videos to narrow down the time range.
2) If they are posting defamatory and untrue statements about you, you can use the defamation report form to file a complaint. Defamation is where someone publishes something that is untrue in order to damage your character. A lot of trolling can be centred around defamation and if you can prove what they are saying is patently untrue, then this is something to consider. Again, you will have to quote the exact statement from the video or description (or even channel description) and then explain EXACTLY why this is defamatory to you in your supporting statement. The defamation form is here: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6154230
3) With AI creation even easier to use, YouTube have rolled out some basic AI content detection tools for creators. This is a tab under the “Content Detection” menu. You will have to activate it and go through the process for the system to start scanning for any AI content based on your image. However, the tool is not very accurate and may not detect some AI material. This is where you’d best file a privacy report. Creating AI representations of people on YouTube breaks the terms of services and again you will have to explain on the form EXACTLY how this infringes your privacy and provide links to your likeness (a URL to a YouTube video, for example) in order to successfully file the report. Privacy form here: https://support.google.com/youtube/contact/privacy_complaint
I hope these tools are useful.
Regards,
Dx