Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently defended the company's use of copyrighted data in AI training by referencing YouTube's battle against pirated content in a legal lawsuit. The case, titled 'Kadrey v. Meta', is one of numerous copyright lawsuits against AI companies currently in U.S. courts, with plaintiffs including notable authors Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates. According to recently released excerpts from Zuckerberg's testimony, he pointed out that while there may be instances of...

At the 2025 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Delta Air Lines once again captured significant attention by announcing a series of anticipated updates. This event took place at the impressive Sphere venue, showcasing their latest technological advancements, including an AI assistant called 'Delta Concierge' and an upgraded in-flight entertainment system. The newly launched 'Delta Concierge' AI assistant is expected to be rolled out gradually over the next year, allowing users to interact via voice.

YouTube recently announced a collaboration with the Creative Artists Agency (CAA) to help celebrities and creators identify content on the platform using their AI-generated images and submit removal requests. This technology is planned to be tested early next year, initially focusing on celebrities and athletes, before expanding to 'top YouTube creators, creative professionals, and other leading partners representing talent.' Last year, CAA launched CAAVault, a service that scans and stores its clients' digital images.

YouTube introduced a significant update to its Shorts feature this Thursday. By integrating Google's DeepMind Veo video generation model, the Dream Screen functionality now supports AI video background generation, allowing for 1080p HD video output, greatly enhancing creators' short video production. The application of this technology is extremely simple and intuitive. Creators just need to open the Shorts camera, click the 'Green Screen' icon, select the 'Dream Screen' feature, and input the desired scene.

To help creators engage more easily with their audiences through comments, YouTube is testing new AI-enhanced comment reply suggestions. This feature allows creators to edit suggestions to fit their own tone and style for better interaction with viewers. Users will soon start seeing comment reply suggestions in the 'Comments' or 'Community' tab in Studio and the YouTube mobile app. Additionally, the comment reply suggestions are completely optional and editable; if you do want to edit a suggestion, simply do so before posting your comment.

Recently, Google's AI note-taking application NotebookLM introduced a cool new feature that allows users to easily extract key information from YouTube videos without watching them from start to finish, helping everyone gain a deeper understanding of video content quickly. The process is quite simple: NotebookLM analyzes the transcribed text of the videos, including automatically generated text, to distill the key information. It's very easy to use; just add the YouTube link to Notebook.

YouTube is developing new tools to help creators manage and protect their voices and images, especially in the context of generative AI. The new tools include 'Synthetic Singing Recognition Technology' aimed at automatically detecting content that uses generative AI to mimic creators' singing voices. This technology will be integrated into YouTube's copyright identification system, with pilot testing planned for next year. Additionally, YouTube is also developing another technology to recognize deepfake videos to protect creators' images. In order to prevent unauthorized YouTube...

YouTube's newly launched AI assistant, the 'Hacked Channel Assistant', is designed to assist users who have been attacked by hackers in quickly recovering their accounts. This feature is provided through the Google support page and aims to help eligible creators protect their Google login information, undo changes made to their channel by hackers, and enhance account security to prevent further attacks. Currently, it is limited to English use and specific creators have access, with Google planning to roll it out to all users in the future. The assistant helps users recover their accounts through a series of questions and offers security advice, including safety...

YouTube is conducting an innovative experiment that integrates Google's Gemini AI technology with its platform, aimed at providing content creators with enhanced creative support. This news was recently announced on YouTube's Creator Insider channel, sparking widespread attention in the industry.

A Massachusetts YouTube creator named David Millette has filed a class-action lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the company of using the transcription content of millions of YouTube videos without permission to train generative AI models like ChatGPT. The lawsuit states that OpenAI's AI products profit from the use of unlicensed and uncompensated training data, violating copyright law and YouTube's terms of service. Millette seeks over $5 million in damages on behalf of all potentially affected YouTube users.

Runway's Gen-3Alpha video generator has been exposed for training on a vast amount of pirated content and unauthorized YouTube videos, raising copyright concerns. Since its release last month, Gen-3Alpha has attracted attention for generating images that closely resemble real effects. However, the opacity of its training data sources and the issues surrounding the use of pirated content highlight AI companies' disregard for copyright when generating content. Furthermore, this incident is not isolated, as companies like OpenAI have also faced similar issues.

Behind the rapid development of artificial intelligence, some tech giants have quietly resorted to controversial means. They have not only "drained" books, websites, photos, and social media posts, but also, without the creators' knowledge, extensively used YouTube videos to train their AI models. Who's Touching My Videos? According to an investigation by Proof News, Silicon Valley giants including Anthropic, NVIDIA, Apple, and Salesforce used subtitle data from 173,536 YouTube videos to train A

Recently, an investigation revealed that several tech giants, including Apple, had utilized YouTube video subtitles to train AI models. These data encompassed over 170,000 videos, including content from well-known creators such as MKBHD and Mr. Beast. Apple used this data to train its open-source model, OpenELM, which was released in April of this year.In response, Apple recently clarified externally that OpenELM has not been applied to any of its AI or machine learning functions, including Appl

According to a report by Wired magazine, several tech giants including Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic, and Salesforce have been found using thousands of YouTube videos without permission to train their artificial intelligence models, sparking serious copyright and ethical controversies.The report reveals that these companies integrated various YouTube video captions into their AI training datasets. The affected creators range widely, including well-known bloggers like MKBHD, MrBeast, and Jacksepticeye