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APPLE, NVIDIA, ANTHROPIC USED THOUSANDS OF SWIPED YOUTUBE VIDEOS TO TRAIN AI

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Several major AI companies, including Anthropic, Nvidia, Apple, and Salesforce, used subtitles from 173,536 YouTube videos across 48,000 channels to train AI models, despite YouTube's rules against unauthorized data harvesting. This has sparked backlash from content creators, who argue that their work has been exploited without consent or compensation, raising concerns about AI's impact on the creative industry and the ethics of using such training data.