A popular text-to-video AI developed by Runway was reportedly trained on pirated content from major YouTube channels, including Disney, Netflix, Sony, and over 1600 videos from MKBHD.
The revelation highlights a recurring issue of AI companies disrespecting copyright laws by incorporating stolen content into their models, raising concerns about data sources and ethics.
Despite questions about which videos were used for training, 404 Media successfully generated realistic videos of famous YouTube personalities, indicating the potential extent of unauthorized content exploitation.
Runway allegedly employed tactics like proxies to evade YouTube blocks while downloading videos, with a former employee mentioning a collective effort to source quality videos for model creation through web crawling.
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