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The Morning After: AI models from Apple, NVIDIA and more were reportedly trained on YouTube videos


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Some of the world’s largest tech companies trained their AI models on datasets that included transcripts of more than 173,000 YouTube videos without permission. Not only have these AI models been trained on some of your favorite YouTube stars, like Marques Brownlee and MrBeast, but also Engadget’s own Cherlynn Low. This year’s Prime Day came with a surprising number of discounts for Apple products, the usual barrage of headphones, Amazon hardware and a 4K TV or two.

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If you think AI labs wouldn't stoop to using scraped YouTube subtitles for training, think again