Big Tech swiped Aussie YouTube videos to train AIs

Apple, Anthropic, Nvidia, and Salesforce, used scraped videos without permission using fair use to sidestep copyright law...

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Thousands of YouTube videos from Australian publishers, broadcasters, and the government, have been used by Apple and Nvidia to train their AIs.

Anthropic also used the data which was harvested from subtitles on 173,536 videos in breach of Google-owned YouTube’s usage policies.

ABC News, Nine’s 60 Minutes, multiple federal government departments, the military, major universities, charities, and religious groups, were scraped.

An enormous training dataset of 489 million words was syphoned from the platform, and even the US Embassy in Australia and Google Australia were hit.

And the AI research group that did it is partly funded by Australia’s $40 billion tech giant, and rising AI star, Canva…