The Daily A.I.’s Original Sin
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Apr 16, 2024 
Cade Metz, a technology reporter for The New York Times, dives into the murky waters of AI development by major tech companies. He reveals how these giants, in their race to innovate, often bend ethical rules regarding data collection. The discussion includes intense competition between OpenAI, Google, and Meta, raising questions about copyright and legal standards. Metz also touches on the challenges of AI training data and the need for human oversight, all while hinting at the broader implications of these actions for our tech-driven future.
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OpenAI's Data Exhaustion
- OpenAI, creators of ChatGPT, exhausted respectable English text data by late 2021.
- They had consumed vast amounts of text, including Wikipedia, news articles, Reddit threads, and digital books.
OpenAI's YouTube Scraping
- OpenAI scraped a million hours of YouTube videos for text data, violating YouTube's terms of service.
- Employees knew about the violation but proceeded anyway.
Google's Blind Eye
- Google employees knew about OpenAI scraping YouTube but turned a blind eye.
- Google also used YouTube content to train its AI, creating a conflict of interest.