Larger technology corporations are said to have utilized thousands of YouTube clips for AI training

Evidence News has released a recent examination which reveals that major tech giants like Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic, and Salesforce leveraged subtitle information from 173,536 YouTube videos to educate their machine learning algorithms.

The organizations intend to employ the dataset “Youtube Subtitles” assembled by EleutherAI; it encompasses transcriptions from educational sources like Khan Academy, MIT, Harvard, The Wall Street Journal, NPR and BBC, in addition to popular entertainment channels like The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and Jimmy Kimmel Live.

The dataset also involves text overlays from videos of prominent YouTube influencers such as MrBeast, Swedish PewDiePie, and Jacksepticeye. As per Youtube’s guidelines, firms are prohibited from collecting content from the platform without authorization.

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