As a random citizen that isn’t involved in these companies, I have no problem with OpenAI doing this anymore than I would with Google doing it. I don’t see why

As a random citizen that isn’t involved in these companies, I have no problem with OpenAI doing this anymore than I would with Google doing it. I don’t see why Google should have exclusive rights to use content that others have made just because they’re protected from competition (for YouTube) via network effects and anti-competitive practices. I’m okay with the actual video creators exercising rights and controls over the use of their content, but I would argue that Google should itself not just assume rights to train on YouTube data through expansive or updated terms of service. And it seems like that’s exactly what they did - quietly assume rights to train their AI models on YouTube content without any additional compensation to content creators: > Google also gathered transcripts from YouTube, according to the Times’ sources. Bryant said that the company has trained its models “on some YouTube content, in accordance with our agreements with YouTube creators.” > The Times writes that Google’s legal department asked the company’s privacy team to tweak its policy language to expand what it could do with consumer data, such as its office tools like Google Docs. The new policy was reportedly intentionally released on July 1st to take advantage of the distraction of the Independence Day holiday weekend. There needs to be legislation to reign in the practices of big tech and also this increasingly common dark pattern of forcing updated terms on customers. They can get away with this due to a lack of feasible competition and their massive capital. Only regulation or taxation might resolve this issue so that control lies with content creators.