And by the people at Proof News & the The AI Democracy Projects led by Alondra Nelson at Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) who came to similar conclusions in different contexts proofnews.org/tag/the-ai-dem…

Proof Founder Julia Angwin says the industry needs to replace the idea of journalistic objectivity with rigorous processes. "Basically, are your processes rigorous enough to overcome the inherent bias that you have as a human? journalistsresource.org/media/ai-journ…

Several companies have made it easy to impersonate voices using AI tools, with little regard for consent. ʝꪖꪀꪊᦓ ᥅ꪮᦓꫀ examined the policies and enforcement of 8 popular voice cloning tools, revealing widespread gaps in ensuring voices are cloned ethically. proofnews.org/ai-tools-make-…

Many tech companies have made impersonating someone’s voice with AI “trivially easy,” ʝꪖꪀꪊᦓ ᥅ꪮᦓꫀ finds in an investigation for Proof News. They also disclaim liability for unauthorized voice cloning. proofnews.org/ai-tools-make-…

On their new podcast, Michael J.J. Tiffany Amna Rana asked me a tough question: What is the biggest threat to privacy today? It's a hard call between facial recognition, AI scraping all our data, and the challenges to encryption. I chose threats to encryption. fulcradynamics.com/augmentedlife

Our latest investigation reveals a dataset of more than 170,000 YouTube video subtitles that big tech companies used to train their AI models.  “Will this be used to exploit and harm artists? Yes, absolutely,” says Dave Wiskus. proofnews.org/apple-nvidia-a…

Apple has sourced data for their AI from several companies One of them scraped tons of data/transcripts from YouTube videos, including mine Apple technically avoids "fault" here because they're not the ones scraping But this is going to be an evolving problem for a long time

Fun fact, I pay a service (by the minute) for more accurate transcriptions of my own videos, which I then upload to YouTube's back-end. So companies that scrape transcripts are stealing *paid* work in more than one way. Not great.

What do Marques Brownlee Stephen Colbert Sarah Silverman have in common? Our investigation found that subtitles from their videos are all being used to train AI models.We built a search tool so you can check which YouTube videos were used in this AI training dataset proofnews.org/youtube-ai-sea…

Looks like dozens of my videos have been scraped and included in datasets for training AI. The companies doing this didn't ask for permission to use my work (of course). I'm not surprised, but it's still somewhat nauseating to see the proof.

A ground-breaking investigation by Annie Gilbertson and Alex Reisner for Proof News found that subtitles from 173,536 YouTube videos, siphoned from more than 48,000 channels, were used by Anthropic, Nvidia, Apple and Salesforce to train their AI models proofnews.org/apple-nvidia-a…

Reporter Annie Gilbertson talks with @juliaangwin about her groundbreaking investigation into AI’s use of YouTube content without the consent of creators. youtube.com/watch?v=XZkOcj…

How do YouTube creators feel about their work being used without their consent to train AI? "Violating", "Exploitative", "I cried" are some of the responses Annie Gilbertson got after her investigation revealing which videos were swiped. tiktok.com/@proof_news/vi…

How accurately do leading AI models respond to questions about Black history? Mr. Ernest Crim III gives them a "C." proofnews.org/tiktok-teacher…

Internal communications show Nvidia raced to build a competitor to OpenAI’s Sora, and concerned employees in the process by resorting to downloading masses of copyrighted YouTube videos.  proofnews.org/nvidia-scrapes…

In the latest  Proof Ingredients video, @juliaangwin sits down with Carl Brown, creator of @InternetOfBugs, to discuss if AI could replace software developers. proofnews.org/is-ai-going-to…

People say one of the best uses for AI is coding — but we weren’t so sure. @juliaangwin invited software developer and creator of the YouTube channel Internet of Bugs to help us test it out. youtu.be/xmnRpW7psQc?si…

Top AI models generated misleading info about Kamala Harris and Donald Trump 30% of the time. From incorrect answers about eligibility to false claims about Medicare cuts, find out how these technologies fail us. proofnews.org/ai-models-stru…