Apple, Nvidia, and others trained their AI on YouTube content without user consent or knowledge [Video]

Here we go again: Giant corporations, including Apple and Nvidia, have used video transcripts from thousands of YouTube creators for AI training without consent or compensation. The news is not that surprising as it seems par for the course. They are simply joining the ranks of Microsoft, Google, Meta, and OpenAI in the unethical use of copyrighted material.

An investigation by Proof News has uncovered that some of the wealthiest AI companies, including Anthropic, Nvidia, Apple, and Salesforce, have used material from thousands of YouTube videos to train their AI models. This practice directly contradicts YouTube’s terms of service, prohibiting data harvesting from the platform without permission, but follows a trend set by Google, OpenAI, and others.

The data, called “YouTube Subtitles,” is a subset of a larger dataset called “The Pile.” It includes transcripts from 173,536 YouTube videos from over …