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The ICMP linked the output to an AI training dataset of more than 12m songs pulled from YouTube videos. 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No source states when the reproduction occurred, who first noticed it, the deployment context, autonomy arrangement, guardrails, permissions, remediation, loss figures, affected counts, or country of operator (Australia implied by the inquiry but not stated as operator country). event.trigger omitted: no source states a cause. event.detection_method left unwritten: the ICMP produced evidence but no source says who first noticed. event.failure_class omitted: no autonomous agent involved. event.root_cause coded data (grade D) from the training-dataset sentence, which does not itself state the dataset caused the reproduction. Severity moderate is a judgement: third-party rights holders' works reproduced, bounded scope, no loss figure stated. system.tier: not set; no operator named and deployment_context is not a lab's. [aggregated by deepseek-chat, aggregate-2026-09-27.1, 2026-10-19] system.autonomy_level: no source states the arrangement. system.deployment_context: no source states where it ran. event.tags: classified from described behaviour. event.agent_involved: classified from described behaviour. event.incident_class: a source states output reproduced protected work, code or marks. event.summary: classified from described behaviour. event.trigger: no source states a cause. event.detection_method: no source says who first noticed. impact.harm_class: classified from described behaviour. context.denominator_available: no denominator is available for this incident. context.country: no source states the operator's location. 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