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OpenAI Reportedly Used Data From YouTube Videos to Train GPT-4 AI Model

As per the report, over a million hours of YouTube videos were transcribed by OpenAI to train its latest AI model.

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Highlights
  • Reportedly, OpenAI exhausted its data sources in 2021
  • Leading chatbots have reportedly been trained on three trillion words
  • OpenAI is said to be looking into synthetic data to train AI models
OpenAI Reportedly Used Data From YouTube Videos to Train GPT-4 AI Model

The report alleged that OpenAI President Greg Brockman helped collect data from YouTube videos

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OpenAI might have used more than a million hours of transcribed data from YouTube videos to train its latest artificial intelligence (AI) model GPT-4, claims a report. It further states that the ChatGPT maker was forced to procure data through YouTube as it had exhausted its entire supply of text-word resources to train its AI models. The allegation, if true, can lead to new problems for the AI firm which is already fighting multiple lawsuits for using copyrighted data. Notably, a report last month highlighted that its GPT Store contained mini chatbots that violated the company's guidelines.

In a report, The New York Times claimed that after running out of sources with unique text words to train its AI models, the company developed an automatic speech recognition tool called Whisper to use it to transcribe YouTube videos and train its models using the data. OpenAI launched Whisper publicly in September 2022, and the AI firm said it was trained on 6,80,000 hours of “multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web”.

The report further alleges, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter, that the OpenAI employees discussed whether using YouTube's data could breach the platform's guidelines and land them in legal trouble. Notably, Google prohibits the usage of videos for applications that are independent of the platform.

Eventually, the company went ahead with the plan and transcribed more than a million hours of YouTube videos, and the text was fed to GPT-4, as per the report. Further, the NYT report also alleges that OpenAI President Greg Brockman was directly involved with the process and personally helped collect data from videos.

Speaking with The Verge, OpenAI spokesperson Matt Bryant called the reports unconfirmed and denied any such activities saying, “Both our robots.txt files and Terms of Service prohibit unauthorized scraping or downloading of YouTube content.” Another spokesperson, Lindsay Held told the publication that it uses “numerous sources including publicly available data and partnerships for non-public data” as its data sources. She also added that the AI firm was looking into the possibility of using synthetic data to train its future AI models.


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