A new investigation finds big tech companies scraped scores of YouTube video subtitles for data

The rise of AI means a lot of the things you might do on the internet -- writing emails, posting to Instagram, working in a Google doc, and even posting a video to YouTube -- could be content that a major tech company could use to train its AI. A recent investigation from the nonprofit news organization Proof News and WIRED found that tech giants like Apple, Nvidia and others scraped subtitles from hundreds of thousands of YouTube videos across over 48,000 channels…without the knowledge of the people who created the videos. With us to share the investigation and\ why that was an issue for some of these creators is Annie Gilbertson, investigative reporter for Proof News.