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YouTube invites users to test its community notes feature
YouTube is testing its community notes feature with a select group of users.
Danny Gallagher08.08.2024
NVIDIA’s AI team reportedly scraped YouTube, Netflix videos without permission
In the latest example of a troubling pattern in the tech industry, Nvidia appears to have scraped troves of copyrighted content for AI training. The $2.4 trillion company reportedly asked workers to download videos from YouTube, Netflix and other datasets to develop commercial AI projects.
Will Shanklin08.06.2024
Apple apologizes for another ad that missed the mark
Apple's latest ad in its Underdogs series is drawing criticism for its portrayal of Thailand.
Danny Gallagher08.03.2024
TikTok's Sound Search lets you find videos by humming or singing
Sound Search lets users sing songs to find videos.
Sarah Fielding07.29.2024
AI video startup Runway reportedly trained on ‘thousands’ of YouTube videos without permission
AI company Runway reportedly scraped “thousands” of YouTube videos and pirated versions of copyrighted movies without permission. Alleged spreadsheets of internal company data suggest Runway trained its Gen-3 model using YouTube content from Disney, Netflix, Pixar and popular media outlets.
Will Shanklin07.26.2024
Apple, NVIDIA and Anthropic reportedly used YouTube transcripts without permission to train AI models
The findings of the investigation spotlight AI’s uncomfortable truth: the technology is largely built on the backs of data siphoned from creators without their consent or compensation.
Pranav Dixit07.17.2024
Streaming accounted for more than 40 percent of TV viewing in June
In June 2024, streaming was responsible for 40.3 percent of Americans' television viewing. YouTube and Netflix led the pack.
Anna Washenko07.17.2024
YouTube Music's latest features include 'hum to search' and AI-generated conversational radio
YouTube Music unveils new features like a ‘hum to search’ tool and AI-generated conversational radio. That last one is still in beta and only available to select users.
Lawrence Bonk07.16.2024
YouTube Shorts gets Instagram's 'Add yours' prompt stickers
YouTube is rolling out "Add yours" stickers on Shorts.
Sarah Fielding07.12.2024
YouTube upgrades its 'erase song' tool to remove copyrighted music only
YouTube's upgraded "erase song" tool has the capability to remove music from video segments without deleting other audio.
Mariella Moon07.05.2024
YouTube film essay pioneers 'Every Frame a Painting' are back
Every Frame a Painting, a YouTube channel dedicated to posting video essays about movies, is back with a new series of videos and a short film.
Mariella Moon07.05.2024
YouTube Premium's new features include picture-in-picture for YouTube Shorts
YouTube has recently launched a bunch of new features for Premium subscribers, including a quick way to skip the more boring parts of a video.
Mariella Moon06.27.2024
YouTube reportedly wants to pay record labels to use their songs for AI training
YouTube is allegedly looking to pay music labels a sum of money to use their content for AI training.
Sarah Fielding06.27.2024
YouTube’s community notes feature rips a page out of X’s playbook
YouTube is borrowing a page from X (Twitter) and adding a community notes feature ahead of the 2024 US election. The company wants the short viewer-created blurbs to add relevant context to videos, such as pointing out misinformation or old footage passed off as new.
Will Shanklin06.18.2024
YouTube is putting new age restrictions on gun videos
YouTube quietly snuck in a policy change that will age-restrict some gun-related videos and bar others altogether. Content featuring homemade and automatic firearms will be banned for viewers under 18, while tutorials for removing safety devices will be prohibited regardless of age.
Will Shanklin06.06.2024
You can now hum to find a song on YouTube Music for Android
YouTube Music for Android is releasing a tool that lets you hum a song to search for it. Users can also actually sing the tune or even play it on an instrument.
Lawrence Bonk05.25.2024
YouTube reportedly agrees to block videos of Hong Kong’s protest song inside the region
YouTube said it would comply with an order blocking access to videos of Hong Kong’s protest anthem inside the region. The decision comes after an appeals court banned the protest song “Glory to Hong Kong,” which the largely China-controlled government predictably framed as a national security issue.
Will Shanklin05.17.2024
Manhattan's DA wants to know why YouTube is pushing 'ghost gun' tutorials to kids
Manhattan's District Attorney wants to meet with YouTube's CEO to discuss why the website allows the posting of videos on how to manufacture "ghost guns" and why its algorithm is pushing them to underage viewers who watch video game content.
Mariella Moon04.25.2024
YouTube prevents ad-blocking mobile apps from accessing its videos
The Google-owned video platform has announced that it's "strengthening [its] enforcement on third-party apps that violate" its Terms of Service, "specifically ad-blocking apps."
Mariella Moon04.16.2024
OpenAI and Google reportedly used transcriptions of YouTube videos to train their AI models
A report by The New York Times claims both OpenAI and Google transcribed videos from YouTube and used these texts to train their AI models, possibly violating copyrights. OpenAI reportedly transcribed more than one million hours of YouTube videos.
Cheyenne MacDonald04.07.2024