AI is trained on YouTube videos. Now we can see which ones have been used. – Tubefilter

The unlicensed reuse of YouTube videos as generative AI training material is a hot-button issue in the creator world, and a new report shows how deep that rabbit hole really goes. As part of an investigation titled AI Watchdog, The Atlantic explored large AI training data sets and published a tool that lets users search through those sets in search of specific creators and channels. Videos that are repurposed for AI training typically have identifying details removed, but Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner found a workaround by “extracting unique identifiers from the data sets and looking them up on YouTube.” From there, he was able to find the sources of the content included in these sets, a list that included creators like Jon Peters. “A large number of the videos in these data sets are from news and educational channels, such as the BBC (which has at least 33,000 videos in the data sets, across its various brands) and TED (nearly 50,000),” Reisner wrote. “Hundreds of thousands of others—if not more—are from individual creators, such as Peters.” Subscribe for daily Tubefilter Top Stories Subscribe The report will undoubtedly cause further alarm among the creators who were already up in arms regarding the questionable ethics of AI training
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