OpenAI, the founder of ChatGPT (a chatbot service) and the company led by Sam Altman has reportedly utilized more than a million hours of YouTube videos to train its AI model, GPT-4. As per a recent report, instead of acknowledging the potential legality issues, the company has considered it fair use.
Greg Brockman, President of OpenAI, who was directly involved in curating the videos for training. As per The Verge report, the company stated that it will leverage various sources, which will further have the public data and partnerships to maintain competitiveness in global research.
In response to this, Google- the owner of YouTube has expressed awareness of unconfirmed reports regarding the AI company’s actions. Furthermore, it reiterates both its robots.txt files and Terms of Service prohibit the unauthorised scraping or downloading of YouTube content.
The disclosure will further follow last year’s revelation by The Information which will be supported by Microsoft, who employed the data from YouTube for training the artificial intelligence models
YouTube further stands as a significant repository of multimedia content, including audio, imagery and text transcripts- making it a prime resource for user AI training.
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