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, a dataset known as "YouTube Subtitles" has been used by everyone from Apple and Anthropic to Nvidia and Salesforce to train AI models since it was released in 2020.
Compiled by the open-source nonprofit EleutherAI, the YouTube Subtitles dataset doesn't include any actual video, but instead subtitle data from 173,536 videos gleaned from more than 48,000 channels. Among those channels were everything from MIT and Harvard to MrBeast and themanaged to speak with for the story, none had been made aware ahead of time that ElutherAI had used subtitles from their videos.
According to AI policy researcher Jai Vipra of Brazil's Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School, the YouTube Subtitles dataset is a "gold mine" because it can teach models how to replicate human speech. To science vlogger Dave Farina of the popular "Professor Dave Explains" series, however, that gold mine comes at a cost to creators.. "If you’re profiting off of work that I’ve done that will put me out of work or people like me out of work, then there needs to be a conversation on the table about compensation or some kind of regulation.
It's a provocative state of affairs — and it's hard to tell at this juncture how to fix it if companies won't even speak on the record about it.
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