AI models from Apple, NVIDIA and more were reportedly trained on YouTube videos

A number of the world’s largest tech firms educated their AI fashions on datasets that included transcripts of greater than 173,000 YouTube movies with out permission. That’s in keeping with an investigation from Proof Information, which laid out how Apple, NVIDIA and Anthropic, amongst different firms, used transcripts of YouTube movies from greater than 48,000 channels. This goes in opposition to YouTube’s personal platform guidelines, which Google execs have repeatedly talked about.

Earlier this month, Apple was criticized for failing to disclose the supply of coaching knowledge for Apple Intelligence, the corporate’s personal spin on generative AI.

Not solely have these AI fashions been educated on a few of your favourite YouTube stars, like Marques Brownlee and MrBeast, but additionally Engadget’s personal Cherlynn Low. (I like you, Cher.)

Intrigued by what else could also be a part of that dataset? Head over to the Proof Information

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