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In this lawsuit, the defendants Meta, Open AIand Bloomberg They claim that their actions constitute fair use. The lawsuit against EleutherAI, which initially scraped and published the books, was filed voluntarily. Dismissed by plaintiff.
The remaining lawsuits are still in their early stages, with questions surrounding permits and payment remaining unresolved. The Pile has since been removed from official download sites, but is still available on file-sharing services.
“Tech companies continue to exercise tyranny,” said Amy Keller, a consumer protection lawyer and partner at the law firm DiCello Levitt, who has filed lawsuits on behalf of creators whose work has allegedly been purchased by AI companies without their permission.
“People are concerned about the fact that they didn’t have a choice in this,” Keller said. “I wonder if that’s really the problem.”
Imitating a parrot
Many creatives feel anxious about their future.
Professional YouTubers monitor unauthorized uses of their work and regularly file takedown notices, and some worry it’s only a matter of time before AI creates content similar to the ones they create, or even outright knockoffs.
Pac-Man is The David Pakman ShowPacman saw the power of AI while scrolling through TikTok recently. He came across a video labeled as a Tucker Carlson clip, and was astonished to see it. It sounded like Carlson, even the cadence was word for word what Pacman said on his YouTube show. He was equally astonished that only one of the video’s commenters realized it was fake, a clone of Carlson’s voice reading Pacman’s script.
“This is going to be a problem,” Pakman said. YouTube videos “You can basically do this to anyone,” he said of the fakes.
Sid Black, Co-Founder, EleutherAI I have written On GitHub, Black said he created the YouTube subtitles using a script that downloads subtitles from YouTube’s API in the same way that a YouTube viewer’s browser downloads subtitles when they watch a video. According to the GitHub documentation, Black used 495 search terms to screen the videos, including “funny blogger,” “Einstein,” “black protestant,” “social protection services,” “Infowars,” “quantum chromodynamics,” “Ben Shapiro,” “Uighur,” “frutarian,” “cake recipes,” “Nazca Lines,” and “flat Earth.”
According to YouTube’s terms of service: prohibit If you access the video through “automated means,” 2,000 GitHub users I have bookmarked or accepted the code.
“There are many ways for YouTube to prevent this module from working,” machine learning engineer Jonas Depois wrote. Discussion Black published the code he used to access YouTube subtitles on GitHub, saying, “To date, this has not happened.”
In an email to Proof News, DePois said he hadn’t used the code since he wrote it for a project as a college student several years ago and was surprised that people were finding it useful. He did not respond to questions about YouTube’s rules.
In an emailed response to a request for comment, Google spokesman Jack Maron said the company has taken “steps to prevent abusive, unauthorized scraping for many years.” He did not respond to questions about whether other companies use the material as training data.
Among the videos used by the AI ​​company: Einstein ParrotThe channel has about 150,000 subscribers. Marsha, the parrot’s caretaker, who didn’t want to use her last name for fear of endangering the famous bird’s safety, said she initially thought it was funny when she learned the AI ​​model had ingested the mimicking parrot’s words.
“Who wants to use the voice of a parrot?” Marcia says. “But I know that parrots are very good at speaking. They speak in my voice. So the parrot is speaking in my voice. And the AI ​​is imitating the parrot’s voice.”
Once data is captured by an AI, it can’t be forgotten, and Marcia was worried that her bird’s information could be used in a variety of unknown ways, such as to create a digital replica of her parrot or to put a curse on it.
“We’re entering uncharted territory,” Marcia said.
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