OpenAI, Google, and Meta Alleged to Have Overstepped Legal Boundaries for Training AI
April 6, 2024
In late 2021, OpenAI and other tech giants like Google and Meta reportedly faced data shortages for training AI models. OpenAI is said to have developed a tool called Whisper to transcribe over one million hours of YouTube videos, potentially violating YouTube’s terms of service. Similarly, Google allegedly transcribed YouTube videos, risking copyright infringements. Meta reportedly explored summarizing copyrighted texts without permission and debated acquiring Simon & Schuster for data.
- Alleged deployer
- openai, meta, google
- Alleged developer
- openai, meta, google
- Alleged harmed parties
- youtube-creators, general-public, content-creators
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/718
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