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Apple, Anthropic, and other companies used YouTube videos to train AI
YouTube has previously said AI training would violate its terms.
More than 170,000 YouTube videos are part of a massive dataset that was used to train AI systems for some of the biggest technology companies, according to an investigation by Proof News and copublished with Wired. Apple, Anthropic, Nvidia, and Salesforce are among the tech firms that used the “YouTube Subtitles” data that was ripped from the video platform without permission. In previous interviews, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan has said that the use of video content to train AI — including transcripts — would violate the platform’s terms.
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