Tech companies are turning to controversial tactics to feed their data-hungry artificial intelligence models, vacuuming up books, websites, photos, and social media posts, often unbeknownst to the ...

So far, when AI companies have trained on YouTube’s invaluable stash of videos, captions, and other content, they’ve done so without permission. An AI-focused content licensing startup called Calliope ...

Many experts in the AI community think OpenAI uses YouTube videos to train AI models. OpenAI would have to downloaded masses of YouTube videos to make this happen ...

Generative AI models are incredibly impressive, but they’re only as good as the data fed into them. Now, it’s been revealed that OpenAI used YouTube videos to train GPT-4, and YouTube says that was ...

Google is using its expansive library of YouTube videos to train its AI models, including Gemini and the Veo 3 video and audio generator, CNBC has learned. The company confirmed to CNBC that it relies ...

When Jon Peters uploaded his first video to YouTube in 2010, he had no idea where it would lead. He was a professional woodworker running a small business who decided to film himself making a dining ...

YouTube has said using creators’ content to train AI systems would violate its terms of service — so what happens if they did? YouTube has said using creators ...

To address the growing A.I. training data crisis, some experts are considering synthetic data as a potential alternative. Real-world data, created by real humans, include news articles, YouTube videos ...

The datasets required to train A.I. models are starting to dry up. Photo by Silas Stein/picture alliance via Getty Images As the A.I. models developed by tech companies become larger, faster and more ...

AI is upending the way robots learn, leaving companies and researchers with a need for more data. Getting it means wrestling with a host of ethical and legal questions. Since ChatGPT was released, we ...