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Rick Beato: belief

1 Mar 2026 Lex Fridman Podcast #492 – Rick Beato: Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music

“I think that the Content ID stuff that was happening with these major labels, they would hire third parties- … that would go out, use AI, and go and anytime they detect anything, they always go to the biggest channels first to get the most views.”

— Rick Beato

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Rick Beato
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belief
Recorded
1 Mar 2026
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…Yeah, those are breakdowns, yeah. I think that the Content ID stuff that was happening with these major labels, they would hire third parties- … that would go out, use AI, and go and anytime they detect anything, they always go to the biggest channels first to get the most views. Makes sense and stuff. And they would claim everything that they could, and historically, YouTubers never would fight back. They were like, “Oh, this is easy money.” YouTubers never fight back at these things, because they’re afraid to have their channels taken down. So- Right, you gotta say, “Hold my beer.”…

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