We are seeing reports that the issue of AI training data is in the news again.
YouTube’s CEO is reported as stating that using YouTube videos to train OpenAI’s text-to-video generator Sora would violate the platform’s rules.
Google is attracting much interest in this area, but seesm to argue that scraping data for AI training is “fair use” because it’s transformative, meaning the model only uses the data to learn, not to reproduce the data itself.
And the missing part is that, of course, Google owns YouTube.