Engadget

Apple, NVIDIA and Anthropic reportedly used YouTube transcripts without permission to train AI models

Some of the world’s largest tech companies trained their AI models on a dataset that included transcripts of more than 173,000 YouTube videos without permission, a new investigation from Proof News ...
Mashable

Open AI and Google trained AI models on YouTube videos

Tech companies are desperate to harvest as much data as possible to train their AI models. Credit: SOPA Images / Contributor / Lightrocket via Getty Images SEE ALSO: OpenAI's Sora just dropped a ...
CNBC

Creators say they didn't know Google uses YouTube to train AI

Google is using its expansive library of YouTube videos to train its AI models, including Gemini and the Veo 3 video and audio generator, CNBC has learned. The company confirmed to CNBC that it relies ...
Engadget

OpenAI and Google reportedly used transcriptions of YouTube videos to train their AI models

OpenAI and Google trained their AI models on text transcribed from YouTube videos, potentially violating creators’ copyrights, according to The New York Times. The report, which describes the lengths ...
The Conversation

AI companies train language models on YouTube’s archive − making family‑and‑friends videos a privacy risk

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