YouTube's pilot is structurally designed to protect the already-protected. Government officials, political candidates, and journalists gain alert and removal rights; everyone else retains the same recourse they had before — which is to say, almost none. The non-consensual imagery incident at a Greek school [5] and the worker whose employer posted AI-generated safety instructions that could cause physical injury both sit entirely outside the scope of what YouTube announced. That is not a bug in the rollout — it reflects a consistent industry logic: liability-adjacent actors (politicians, journalists) get…