YouTube's structural position in the AI copyright dispute is more conflicted than its policy announcements acknowledge. The platform that automatically blocks AI-generated scenes at upload is the same platform that now offers creators a built-in tool to swap flagged copyrighted audio for AI-generated replacements. The enforcement logic and the product logic point in opposite directions — and that contradiction is not an oversight. It is a business model: YouTube gains revenue from Content ID enforcement and from the AI music tool replacing the content that triggered the claim. Creators navigating…