As if companies aren't scraping all of it anyway.

Coincidentally, Google just like two days ago revealed their new text-to-video AI model that somehow is leaps and bounds above the rest of the competition they attribute to better training data. How weird. Coincidentally weird, of course.

Imagine companies using YouTube videos to train their AI customer service reps. You call in, and for a while think you're having a conversation with a person, but weirdly every minute and a half or so it's just randomly peppered with that metal gear solid alert sound, the inevitable waowwww sound effect, Michael Scott and Dr. Evil soundboard clips, then when you start getting suspicious that it may not actually be a real human on the other line they randomly go on an ad read for hellofresh out of nowhere

Yeah, third party companies. Google is still allowed to train their AI on them.

Me: "I should upload a series of daily videos where I speak exclusively jibberish, while doing insane movements/"dances"

"USHNXMBXSGJLOCXRH OJCSSIKBFHHFDUKFSYKM TKJFSTJVDDJVCDIBCF"

meanwhile doing hip thrusts and cartwheels simutaniously while my neighbor below bangs on their ceiling with a broom

they can just bury your channel and never promote it if you don't accept, right?

Guess which option will be set to off by users, which youtube will make the default to "on", and then entirely remove the button when users adapt to turning it off.

Looking at the general quality of YouTube videos, and the expected demographic of people that would select this option, this looks like a recipe for creating the most conspiracy-theory-oriented AI ever created.

The youtube videos have already been used to train AI. MKBHD proved it when sora crapped out his own plant in a generated "tech video". The question is whether google allowed it or not.

I upload unstructured noise. Good fucking luck AI scum.

I have a YouTube channel as well, and also got notified about this.
The setting is disabled by default, so I don't have a particularly large problem with it. But that might also be because I'm in the EU.

For once, they actually implemented a new "feature" as opt-in, rather than opt-out.

I don't upload YouTube videos so I'm unsure about the logistics of settings for videos. Do you get these options on videos already uploaded or is this only an option when first uploaded? Is this for the whole channel or video specific? Just curious how it works. Regardless if they ever decide to turn it on by default that would mean YouTubers would have to go through hundreds of videos and turn it off individually unless it's a channel wide setting kinda thing.

Edit: Just noticed it's under channel settings so I guess that's a good thing. If it was video specific that would be just plain evil. I guess I shouldn't give them ideas...

You know as a fact that they probably rolled out the feature.and then turned it on for every single uploaded video that ever existed in the platform before the rollout.

Pure cancer

it's awful but thankfully it looks like it's opt in not opt out.