Apr 6, 2024Single source
OpenAI, Google, and Meta Alleged to Have Overstepped Legal Boundaries for Training AI
Rogue: Caused harmAI loose in the worldData exfiltrationDERIVED
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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.
What this means for youAt home, if you post videos or books online, AI companies may have used them to train models without permission. At work, check whether your company's data or content terms allow AI training. In government, these allegations feed debates over copyright and data-scraping rules.
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- AI Incident Databasehttps://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/718
Data from the AI Incident Database (incidentdatabase.ai), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. IAAI-21.
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