Overview

• OpenAI transcribed over a million hours of YouTube videos using its Whisper model to train GPT-4, raising legal and ethical concerns.
• Google and OpenAI have been accused of violating copyright laws by training their AI models on transcribed YouTube content, despite prohibitions against unauthorized scraping.
• Meta also engaged in questionable practices by harvesting copyrighted materials for AI training without compensation, according to reports.
• The tech giants' actions have sparked concerns about privacy and copyright, as they seek to overcome the challenges of a dwindling supply of high-quality training data.
• Legal and technical measures are being considered or implemented by companies like Google to prevent unauthorized use of their content for AI training.