Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? (youtube.com)
AIs are training on YouTuber transcripts, according to investigative reporting. Majority of creators don't want this. Maybe YouTube (or a competitor) can do what YouTube does, without requiring actual people to share profits with). Mostly the companies are using educational YouTube content.
Reddit changed it's robots.txt last month to disallow: / (all, no robots allowed).
Remember how around the launch of the first public chatGPT, either just before or after, headlines had it that the entire reddit had been scraped. I thought it was just to use later, since it was the most pristine non-AI-content data source we would perhaps have, that and Xwitter but Xwitter is different, but maybe it was also so that when copyright etc became an issue, which could happen any day, it would be more legally risky to scrape and use reddit. ... Or it could be reddit wants to build a GPT, so reddit is ‘barring the door’ since the actual content isn't created or owned by reddit but rather by the people who wrote it. Or it could be part of reddit licensing all its content exclusively to a customer.
YouTube is acting like its content creators did agree (implicitly or otherwise) to allow their videos to be used to train Google's AI. ... A point raised here is that if it was not for Google's AI but was rather for some other company, Google would not allow it. Does Google at least partially view its creators as business partners?