Apple, Anthropic, Nvidia and other companies used YouTube videos to train AI systems.

Man, I always hated Apple, but I was running low on fuel, and this stokes me right back up. Apple trained AI models on YouTube content without consent

YouTube creators surprised to find Apple and others trained AI on their videos

AI companies reportedly used YouTube video transcripts for training

Apple, Anthropic, Nvidia, and Salesforce were apparently using subtitles from over 170,000 YouTube videos to train AI. No permission, no heads-up. Big creator names like MrBeast, Marques Brownlee, and Khan Academy.

"AI companies are generally secretive about their sources of training data, but an investigation by Proof News found some of the wealthiest AI companies in the world have used material from thousands of YouTube videos to train AI." #AI#Theft#Data