Runway AI's Scraping of Individual YouTube Channels
Runway, a video-based AI company, has been shown to scrape specific YouTube channels for footage.
This practice raises concerns about the ethical implications of AI development and its potential to displace creators.
The documentation of Runway's scraping serves as a historical record of how AI impacts creators' livelihoods.
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We've got a bumper episode today. First off, a whole series of stories about robots.txt and its increased use against AI, as well as Reddit only being available in Google results now (and not other search engines like DuckDuckGo). Then after the break, Sam discusses her amazing scoop which showed that multibillion dollar company Runway scraped videos from individual YouTube creators. In the subscribers-section, everyone educates Joseph on what Skibidi is.