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Apple, NVIDIA and Anthropic reportedly used YouTube transcripts without permission to train AI models
The findings of the investigation spotlight AI’s uncomfortable truth: the technology is largely built on the backs of data siphoned from creators without their consent or compensation.
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 has found. The findings of the investigation spotlight AI’s uncomfortable truth: the technology is largely built on the backs of data siphoned from creators without their consent or compensation. If you want to see if subtitles from your YouTube videos or from your favorite channels are part of the dataset, head over the Proof News' lookup tool.
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