Hundreds of thousands of videos from news publishers were used to train AI models

YouTube channels from major news publishers and creators were in video data sets used by Microsoft, Meta, Snap, Runway, and Bytedance. For example, 11,604 videos from the official YouTube channel of The New York Times across 11 different data sets are in the database. Over 8,000 of these videos, though, came from a single training data source — Runway Gen-3.

Source: Hundreds of thousands of videos from news publishers like The New York Times and Vox were used to train AI models