Julia AngwinHuge investigation from @proofnews today: We reveal the trove of YouTube videos that are being used to train AI models including Anthropic's Claude.
Yes, it includes all your favorite YouTubers - from Hank Green to Mr. Beast to @khanacademy
@proofnews @khanacademy Were your favorite YouTubers' videos secretly used to train AI? We built a tool that lets you search the dataset we compiled:
@proofnews @khanacademy We launched our YouTube channel today, too. After all, what better way to report on YouTubers' videos being used without their consent than with a YouTube video?
Was your favorite YouTube channel used to train AI?
@proofnews @khanacademy We believe you should know what's in your news. So we include an ingredients label on our investigations. And we made a video explainer about our ingredients labels, too.
What's in your news?
@proofnews @khanacademy YouTubers told us they did not consent to their videos being used to train AI.
Anthropic, which used the YouTube data to train its model Claude, referred questions about permission to the creators of the open source dataset, who did not respond to requests for comment.
Sam@Julia @proofnews @khanacademy fyI I am following you One Julianin Mastodon but I have 5 consecutive posts from you on this story. I think you are probably trying to target different platforms and it’s not working. I am not following Proof or Kahn FYI.