OpenAI’s GPT-4: Trained on Million Hours of YouTube Transcripts, Sparks Legal Concerns

OpenAI’s most advanced large language model, GPT-4, trained on YouTube transcripts, raising legal concerns and showcasing innovative data collection strategies.

OpenAI, the renowned AI research company, has made waves with its latest model, GPT-4. GPT-4, the most advanced large language model, has been trained on over a million hours of YouTube transcripts. This innovative approach to data collection has sparked legal concerns and showcases the company’s commitment to gathering high-quality training data for AI models.

The use of YouTube videos for training data was considered legally questionable by OpenAI, but the company believed it to be fair use. OpenAI president Greg Brockman was personally involved in collecting videos used for this purpose. The company’s spokesperson, Lindsay Held, mentioned that OpenAI curates unique datasets for each of its models to help their understanding of the world and uses numerous sources, including publicly available data and partnerships for non-public data.

Google, which owns YouTube, has ‘robots.txt files and Terms of Service that prohibit unauthorized scraping or downloading of YouTube content. Google spokesperson Matt Bryant mentioned that the company takes technical and legal measures to prevent such unauthorized use when they have a clear legal or policy basis to do so.

Training GPT-4 on YouTube transcripts

The training of GPT-4 on YouTube transcripts is part of a broader strategy by AI companies to overcome the challenge of finding sufficient and diverse data to train their models effectively. This strategy also includes using data from other sources such as Github, chess move databases, and schoolwork content from Quizlet.

As the AI industry continues to evolve, OpenAI‘s innovative approach to data collection and training showcases the potential and challenges of developing advanced AI models. Stay tuned for more updates on the latest advancements in AI technology.

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