Interesting news has come about Apple Intelligence, the new generation artificial intelligence model that has been long-awaited by end users. According to reports, the American tech giant is using videos from the internet, especially from YouTube, to train its AI model. This has sparked various discussions. Here are the details…
Apple and Artificial Intelligence: Is it Ethical?
As you know, no artificial intelligence model is presented to end users in a ready-to-use and ‘completed’ form. In this sense, models need to be continuously fed and trained with different content to function more stably.
According to today’s reports, Apple and other companies have used content from YouTube videos to train their AI models without the creators’ permission.
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This new report indicates that a third-party company (possibly EleutherAI, which has an agreement with Apple) created a file containing subtitles from more than 170,000 videos. These videos include content from long-time tech reviewers like Marquees Brownlee (MKBHD) and late-night comedians Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel.
Large companies like Apple were using a dataset called ‘YouTube Subtitles,’ created by EleutherAI, which does not contain video but includes plain text subtitles from the videos. This set also contains translations into languages such as Japanese, German, and Arabic, accelerating the training of AI.
Of course, the ethics of this practice are highly debatable. In several cases that have been reflected in the European Union before, decisions were made that such content could be used to train AIs.
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