Some of the world’s biggest tech companies trained artificial intelligence models on a database containing the transcripts of more than 173,000 YouTube videos without permission. That’s according to research Evidence NewsApple, NVIDIA and Anthropic, among other companies, have disclosed how they use transcripts of YouTube videos from more than 48,000 channels. This goes against YouTube’s own platform rules, which Google executives have repeatedly pointed out.
Earlier this month, Apple was criticized for not disclosing the source of training data for Apple Intelligence, the company’s spin on generative artificial intelligence.
These AI models have been trained not only on your favorite YouTube stars like Marques Brownlee and MrBeast, but also Engadget’s Cherlynn Low. (I love you, Cher.)
What else are you interested in that could be part of this data set? go to Evidence News
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