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

A report by The New York Times claims both OpenAI and Google transcribed videos from YouTube and used these texts to train their AI models, possibly violating copyrights. OpenAI reportedly transcribed more than one million hours of YouTube videos.

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 OpenAI, Google and Meta have gone to in order to maximize the amount of data they can feed to their AIs, cites numerous people with knowledge of the companies’ practices. Bryant told NYT that this is only done with the permission of users who opt into Google’s experimental features, and that the company “did not start training on additional types of data based on this language change.”

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