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AI companies train language models on YouTube’s archive − making family-and-friends videos a privacy risk

By Ryan McGrady, Senior Researcher, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, UMass Amherst
Ethan Zuckerman, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Communication, and Information, UMass Amherst

Many videos people upload to YouTube aren’t really meant for public consumption, but they’re available for AI companies to vacuum up. Many of these personal videos are posted by children.

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