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OpenAI, Google, and Meta Alleged to Have Overstepped Legal Boundaries for Training AI
- Occurred
- Apr 6, 2024
- Published
- Apr 6, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
In late 2021, OpenAI and other tech giants like Google and Meta reportedly faced data shortages for training AI models. OpenAI is said to have developed a tool called Whisper to transcribe over one million hours of YouTube videos, potentially violating YouTube’s terms of service. Similarly, Google allegedly transcribed YouTube videos, risking copyright infringements. Meta reportedly explored summarizing copyrighted texts without permission and debated acquiring Simon & Schuster for data.
Developers
- OpenAI
- Meta
Deployers
- OpenAI
- Meta
Harmed parties
- YouTube creators
- General public
- Content creators
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Alleged unauthorized data scraping and copyright violations by tech giants for AI training.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8