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YouTube will now let creators opt in to third-party AI training

YouTube on Monday announced it will give creators more choice over how third parties can use their content to train their AI models. Starting today,

But while the setting’s addition controls access by third parties, the company tells TechCrunch that Google will continue to train its own AI models on some YouTube content in accordance with its existing agreement with creators. The new setting also doesn’t otherwise change YouTube’s Terms of Service which prohibits third parties from accessing creator content in unauthorized ways, like scraping, for example. The detection technology would expand upon YouTube’s existing Content ID system, which previously focused only on copyright-protected material, the company explained at the time.

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