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Samee Hassan
July 19, 2024

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  • Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic used thousands of swiped YouTube videos to train AI

  • Latest in tech and AI + dev resources

  • Cool AI tools + see who raised funds

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🗞️ HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY

TLDR

Apple, Nvidia, and Anthropic used subtitles from over 173,000 YouTube videos, including those from major channels and creators, to train AI models without creators' knowledge or consent. This practice raises ethical concerns about copyright and compensation.

Summary

  • Subtitles from 173,536 YouTube videos used for AI training by major tech companies.

  • Creators include educational channels and popular YouTubers like MrBeast and PewDiePie.

  • Many creators unaware their content was used, raising issues of consent and compensation.

  • Ethical concerns about AI-generated content replacing original creators’ work.

  • Legal and regulatory implications still unclear.

What we think

The use of YouTube content for AI training without explicit consent is a significant ethical issue. It highlights the need for clearer regulations and compensation mechanisms to protect content creators in the digital age.

⚡ LATEST IN TECH AND AI

Meta will withhold future multimodal AI models from EU customers due to regulatory uncertainties, although a text-only version of Llama 3 will be available.

OpenAI and Thrive Global are funding Thrive AI Health to develop a personalized AI health coach catering to daily behaviors essential to health, like sleep and diet. The mobile app and enterprise product will be powered by AI's hyper-personalization capabilities, integrating peer-reviewed science and individual data. The initiative aims to democratize healthy behavior change, address chronic disease management, and demonstrate efficient AI integration into healthcare with strong privacy measures.

Google Vids is an AI-powered video creation app designed for work and deeply integrated with the Workspace suite.

💻 DEV RESOURCES

OpenAI trained a strong model to output more legible text for a weak model to grade accurately and found that this led to general purpose improvements in overall legibility.

This project introduces a background-class separation framework to improve Class-Incremental Semantic Segmentation (CISS).

Analysis of Microsoft's GraphRAG paper reveals that knowledge graphs like Neo4j may not significantly outperform FAISS in context retrieval for RAG applications. While Neo4j without its indexing can achieve a higher answer relevancy, the marginal gains may not justify the investment given ROI constraints. However, the use of Neo4j's indexing shows a noticeable improvement in answer faithfulness, which reduces the risk of fabricated information.

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💸 WHO RAISED?

Discover startups who just raised funds

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