YouTube CEO warns OpenAI that training model on its videos violates rules

Artificial intelligence models that use the work of individuals without permission (or compensation) are nothing new, and entities like this New York Times and Getty Images join artists and writers in filing lawsuits against artificial intelligence creators.In March, OpenAI CTO Mira Murati created continued uncertainty, saying wall street journal She’s not sure whether Sora, the company’s new text-to-video artificial intelligence tool, gets data from YouTube, Instagram or Facebook posts. Now, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan has issued a clear warning to OpenAI, saying that using its videos to teach Sora would be a “clear violation” of the platform’s terms of use.

during an interview Bloomberg Original Host Emily Mohan said: “From a creator’s perspective, when creators upload their hard work to our platform, they have certain expectations. One of those expectations is to abide by the terms of service. It does not allow content such as transcripts or video clips to be downloaded, which is a clear violation of our terms of service. These are the rules for content on our platform.”

There is still a lot of uncertainty and controversy about how OpenAI trains Sora, ChatGPT, and DALL-E. wall street journal It was recently reported that the company plans to use YouTube video transcriptions to train GPT-5. OpenAI rival Google, on the other hand, clearly respects the rules — at least when it comes to YouTube (which it owns). Google’s artificial intelligence model Gemini requires similar data to learn, but Mohan claims it only uses certain videos, depending on the permissions granted in each creator’s licensing contract.