Tech Giants Used YouTube Videos Without Consent to Train AI

An investigation by Proof News revealed that major tech companies like Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic, and Salesforce have used subtitles from over 173,000 YouTube videos to train their AI models without the creators' consent, violating YouTube's terms of service. This practice has sparked outrage among content creators, who demand compensation and regulation, as their work is being used to develop AI that could potentially replace them. The dataset, known as YouTube Subtitles, is part of a larger compilation called the Pile, which includes various other sources of data.