YouTubers Sue Amazon, Claim AI Tool Was Trained on Scraped Videos

YouTubers Sue Amazon, Claim AI Tool Was Trained on Scraped Videos

A group of YouTube creators is suing Amazon, accusing the tech giant of secretly scraping their videos to train its AI video model without permission. The proposed class action lawsuit, filed in federal court in Seattle, alleges Amazon used automated tools to download and extract data from millions of YouTube videos to build and improve…

Google Considers Letting Websites Opt Out of Having Content Scraped for AI Overviews

Google Considers Letting Websites Opt Out of Having Content Scraped for AI Overviews

Google says it’s exploring the option of letting publishers opt out of having their website content used to generate AI Overviews at the top of search results. In a blog post published on Thursday, the company addressed its approach to the controls it provides to websites in order to manage how their content appears in…