A YouTuber is suing OpenAi for allegedly using YouTube transcripts to train their AI without consent from creators. This lawsuit follows an investigation by Wired and Proof News, which revealed that over 170,000 subtitles from 48,000 channels, including content from major creators like PewDiePie, MrBeast, and Jimmy Kimmel, were used by AI companies. MKBHD, a tech creator affected by the situation, expressed frustration over the use of paid transcriptions without permission. The lawsuit claims that OpenAI's AI products, which benefit from this unauthorized data, have become more valuable, and seeks over $5 million in compensation for the creators.
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00:00A YouTuber is suing OpenAI for allegedly using YouTube transcripts to train their AI without
00:05consent from creators.
00:07Back in mid-July, investigations done by Wired and Proof News claimed that over 170,000 subtitles
00:14from over 48,000 different channels were used to train AI from multiple tech companies.
00:20And it's not just small creators that were affected.
00:23According to the report, huge YouTubers and even celebrities such as PewDiePie, MrBeast,
00:28and even Jimmy Kimmel have been affected.
00:30MKBHD, a tech video creator and YouTuber, took to X shortly after the Wired article
00:35was published to write,
00:37Fun fact, I pay a service by the minute for more accurate transcriptions of my own videos,
00:42which I then upload to YouTube's backend.
00:45So companies that scrape transcripts are stealing paid work in more than one way.
00:50Not great.
00:51The official report from Wired reads,
00:53An investigation by Proof News found some of the wealthiest AI companies in the world
00:57have used material from thousands of YouTube videos to train AI.
01:01Companies did so despite YouTube's rules against harvesting materials from the platform without
01:06permission.
01:07Now, in early August, YouTuber David Millett is filing a class-action lawsuit against OpenAI
01:12for their alleged scraping of transcripts.
01:15The official complaint filed by Millett and his legal team reads,
01:19As OpenAI's AI products become more sophisticated through the use of training datasets, they
01:23become more valuable to prospective and current users, who purchase subscriptions to use OpenAI's
01:29AI products.
01:30Much of the material in OpenAI's training datasets, however, comes from works that were
01:34copied by OpenAI without consent, without credit, and without compensation.
01:39Millett is seeking trial by jury and over $5 million to compensate creators in this
01:45class-action lawsuit.