Apple, Anthropic, other tech companies under scanner for using YouTube videos to train AI, report says

With the advancement of Artificial intelligence, the requirement of huge datasets is also increasing, which some companies seem to be using illegally. As reported by Proof news companies such as Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic, and Salesforce used subtitles from YouTube videos to train generative AI models.

The dataset, called YouTube Subtitles, reportedly included video transcripts from educational and online learning channels such as Khan Academy, MIT, and Harvard.