YouTube CEO Says OpenAI Could’ve Violated Platform Rules For Sora Training
Apr. 5, 2024In the latest development, YouTube CEO, Neal Mohan has fired shots at OpenAI aroundSoratraining, its text-to-video AI model, using YouTube videos. Speaking toBloomberg, Mohan said it would be a “clear violation” of YouTube’s Terms of Service (ToS). This is the first time the YouTube CEO has publicly spoken on this topic.
Mohan further said that he hasno informationon whether OpenAI used YouTube videos to train Sora. However, if it were the case, it would go against YouTube’s policy.
It’s worth noting that, earlier, when OpenAI’s CTO,Mira Muratispoke to Joanna Stern ofThe Wall Street Journal, she dodged the question on whether Sora was trained on YouTube videos. She said, “I am actually not sure about that” and further refused to clarify saying that “I’m just not going to go into the details about the data that was used.”
Mohan further said that Google signs licensing contracts withindividual creatorsand some corpus of YouTube videos might be used for training Google’s AI models.
OpenAI has been facingchallenges around IP rightsfor some time now for training AI models. TheNew York Times sued OpenAIover copyright infringement. The Intercept also recently filed a lawsuit against OpenAI. Now, we will have to wait and see how OpenAI reacts to allegations of breaking YouTube’s rules if the company indeed trained its Sora model on YouTube videos.
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