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OpenAI sued by YouTube anchors for $5 million

2024-08-06

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IT Home reported on August 6 that a YouTube anchor filed a class action lawsuit with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California last Friday, accusing OpenAI of using artificial intelligence to manipulate the content of videos without notifying the video owner or providing compensation to him.Unauthorized scraping of millions of YouTube video scripts to train AI generation models

The anchor is named David Millette from Massachusetts, USA. He accused OpenAI of grabbing videos of him and other anchor creators for training AI models. The products involved include ChatGPT, Sora, etc.

The class action lawsuit alleges that OpenAI collected the data and received “generous rewards,” but that this practice violated copyright law and YouTube’s terms of service.

Millett has currently entrusted the Bursor & Fisher law firm to advance the class action lawsuit. The plaintiff requests a jury trial and demands more than $5 million in compensation from all YouTube users and creators whose data may have been involved in OpenAI training (IT Home Note: currently approximately RMB 35.683 million).