This week, we learned that huge tech corporations, such as Apple, Nvidia, and Anthropic, allegedly use information like the subtitles and transcripts of YouTube videos to train their AI models.
Some of the creators of these videos reacted to the news that their content was used in this way with disappointment and frustration, and understandably so. While they agreed to YouTube’s terms of service, which may include implicit agreement that content could be used in ways like this, they put a ton of work into their videos, and that’s gone on to be used and maybe even sold without the original creators seeing compensation or even credit.
