According to a new report from Proof News, Apple has been using a dataset containing the subtitles of 173,536 YouTube videos to train its AI.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox

YouTube creators were unaware that tech companies were using transcripts of their content to train AI systems.

A dataset of 173,536 YouTube videos called The Pile also included content from Harvard, NPR, and 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.'

AI companies and big tech are desperate for data and turning to any source they can find when building next-generation models. A new investigation found this includes thousands of captions from YouTube videos.

“Apple has sourced data for their AI from several companies,” Brownlee, known by his handle MKBHD, wrote in a post on X. “One of them scraped tons of data/transcripts from YouTube videos, including mine.” He added: “This is going to be an evolving problem for a long time.”

PM EDT Salesforce reached out to Mashable with a comment in response to Wired's report. A new report claimed that tech giants including Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic, and Salesforce used data from "thousands of YouTube videos" to train AI.

A new report finds that the AI used by companies like Apple and Nvidia were trained by scraped transcripts from over 173,000 YouTube videos.

This week, a report by Wired revealed that Apple, NVIDIA, and other tech companies were using hundreds of thousands of YouTube videos to train their … The post Apple debunks reports that it trained AI on stolen YouTube videos appeared first on BGR.

Apple on Thursday addressed concerns about its use of AI training data, following an investigation that revealed Apple, along with other major

Apple, NVIDIA, Anthropic, and Salesforce have been found to use YouTube transcripts without permission to train their AI models, according to an investigation by Proof News. The dataset, created by the nonprofit EleutherAI,