Artificial intelligence models require as much useful data as possible to perform but some of the biggest AI developers are relying partly on transcribed YouTube videos without permission from the creators in violation of YouTube's own rules, as discovered in an investigation by Proof News and Wired.
The two outlets revealed that Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic, and other major AI firms have trained their models with a dataset called YouTube Subtitles incorporating transcripts from nearly 175,000 videos across 48,000 channels, all without the video creators knowing.
