Tom Scott's Fictional AI That Erases a Century of Pop Culture

HN points to it in discussions of AI copyright enforcement and badly specified AI goals, and recommends it alongside his other fiction.

A speculative-fiction video by Tom Scott, framed as coming from a future, about an AI called Earworm that enforces copyright so aggressively that humanity ends up forgetting a century of pop culture. It is animated and narrated as part of his series of videos from a future.