AI companies are vacuuming up online content at massive scale: A new investigation found over 15.8 million YouTube videos from 2+ million channels were scraped without permission by tech firms to train AI models. These companies insist they “respect” creators and claim such usage is legal under current law, even as creators see their work taken without consent.
Source: The Great AI Content Heist: How Bots Are Devouring the Internet – and How We Can Fight Back