Several YouTubers sue Apple for using millions of their videos to train AI models
The owners of the channels h3h3Productions, MrShortGame Golf and Golfholics have filed a class action lawsuit against Apple in federal court in California. The lawsuit alleges that the company has violated the Digital Rights Act (DMCA) by illegally accessing and extracting millions of YouTube videos for training its artificial intelligence models.
According to the lawsuit, Apple would have deliberately bypassed YouTube’s protections to prevent large-scale collection of its content (scraping) for generative AI tools.
They accuse Apple of bypassing YouTube protections to collect content from its channels and train its AI
The complaint maintains that the Research documents published by Apple confirm the use of content uploaded by Youtubers for training their systems.
They consider that the actions of the apple company represent an attack against the community of creators, by using their work for free and without any compensation to promote their own AI technology and make money with it.
Therefore, they are seeking an injunction and damages both individually and on behalf of other affected creators in the United States to prevent unauthorized use of their works in the future by Apple and other companies.
Antonio Delgado
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