00:00A YouTuber is suing OpenAI for allegedly using YouTube transcripts to train their AI without
00:05consent from creators.
00:07Back in mid-July, investigations done by Wired and Proof News claimed that over 170,000 subtitles
00:14from over 48,000 different channels were used to train AI from multiple tech companies.
00:20And it's not just small creators that were affected.
00:23According to the report, huge YouTubers and even celebrities such as PewDiePie, MrBeast,
00:28and even Jimmy Kimmel have been affected.
00:30MKBHD, a tech video creator and YouTuber, took to X shortly after the Wired article
00:35was published to write,
00:37Fun fact, I pay a service by the minute for more accurate transcriptions of my own videos,
00:42which I then upload to YouTube's backend.
00:45So companies that scrape transcripts are stealing paid work in more than one way.
00:50Not great.
00:51The official report from Wired reads,
00:53An investigation by Proof News found some of the wealthiest AI companies in the world
00:57have used material from thousands of YouTube videos to train AI.
01:01Companies did so despite YouTube's rules against harvesting materials from the platform without
01:06permission.
01:07Now, in early August, YouTuber David Millett is filing a class-action lawsuit against OpenAI
01:12for their alleged scraping of transcripts.
01:15The official complaint filed by Millett and his legal team reads,
01:19As OpenAI's AI products become more sophisticated through the use of training datasets, they
01:23become more valuable to prospective and current users, who purchase subscriptions to use OpenAI's
01:29AI products.
01:30Much of the material in OpenAI's training datasets, however, comes from works that were
01:34copied by OpenAI without consent, without credit, and without compensation.
01:39Millett is seeking trial by jury and over $5 million to compensate creators in this
01:45class-action lawsuit.
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