. AI models, including Google's Gemini, require a ton of training data to be competitive. So a natural next question is: Is Google using its massive trove of YouTube videos to further those AI ambitions? To help try to answer that question, we looked at what YouTube's CEO has said on the topic and what the platform's terms of service say, along with sending some clarifying questions to its parent company Google.
was asked in an interview about the possibility of Google using YouTube's massive digital content library to train its AI models. In April, The New York Times that "Like OpenAI, Google transcribed YouTube videos to harvest text for its A.I.
models, five people with knowledge of the company's practices said. That potentially violated the copyrights to the videos, which belong to their creators." Mohan said some YouTube creators have specific contracts that can allow their content to be used in AI training.
"Google uses YouTube content really in accordance again back with those terms of service or individual contracts that we might have with creators or uploaders to our platform," Mohan told Bloomberg's Emily Chang in a full-length , some of which was first published in "Lots of creators have different sort of licensing contracts in terms of their content on our platform, lots of rightsholders do," he added. Basically, it sounds like YouTube's CEO is saying that any AI training the company is doing with YouTube content, whether it's scraping video titles or transcripts .
