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What We Learned This Week: Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI
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AI companies are generally secretive about their sources of training data, but a recent investigation by Proof News found some of the wealthiest AI companies in the world have used material from thousands of YouTube videos to train AI. Companies did so despite YouTube's rules against harvesting materials from the platform without permission. Proof's investigation, which was co-published at Wired, found that subtitles from 173,536 YouTube videos, siphoned from more than 48,000 channels, were used by companies including Anthropic, Nvidia, Apple, and Salesforce.
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The DART Board: 07.25.2024
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Hot Times, Summer in the City…..you know the rest. Outdoor sculpture installations, white box summer group shows, workshops in unusual locations, special events on the city’s waterways--even just a ferry ride to the Rockaways, where art installations take over prime beachfronts. Following are some ideas for chilling out. Always check the info link as many galleries are now on summer schedules. Special for designers: Exceptional Works |Josef Albers at David Zwirner Just in ...