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Ethan Klein Sues Major Companies Nvidia, Meta, Open AI, Apple And More For Illegally Scraping YouTube Videos

AI cannot learn from nothing, it has to be trained. So many major companies decided to use YouTube videos to train their AI ...
The Daily Dot

YouTube’s new prompt asking “does this feel like AI slop?” raises questions: “Turning 2 billion users into unpaid AI trainers”

YouTube just launched a new pop-up survey asking viewers if videos look like "AI slop," spurring theories that they're training their own bot. Since Tuesday, instead of asking whether a video was ...
Reuters

YouTuber sues Runway AI in latest copyright class action over AI training

Feb 24 (Reuters) - Artificial intelligence video startup Runway AI has been hit with a proposed class action lawsuit in California federal court for allegedly misusing YouTube content to train its ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

Hundreds of thousands of videos from news publishers like The New York Times and Vox were used to train AI models

Last month, The Atlantic dropped the latest investigation in its ongoing series on generative AI training data sets. Staff writer Alex Reisner found that at least 15 million YouTube videos had been ...
AppleInsider

Apple may have scraped YouTube videos without permission for AI training

A collection of YouTube channels are suing Apple under the provisions of the DMCA, with the company accused of scraping videos from YouTube and using them to train internal AI models. In a lawsuit ...
Forbes

YouTube To Use AI To Fight ‘Low-Effort’ AI Slop

In the digital landscape of 2026, AI-generated content is everywhere, but YouTube intends to use AI to reduce the flow of slop. In his annual letter to the creator community, YouTube CEO Neal Mohen ...