YouTuber files class action suit over OpenAI's scrape of creators' transcripts

A YouTube creator, David Millette, has filed a proposed class action against OpenAI, alleging the company trained its generative AI models on millions of YouTube video transcripts without notifying or compensating creators. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California by attorneys at Bursor & Fisher, alleges violations of copyright law and YouTube's terms of service and seeks a jury trial and over $5 million in damages. The article also reports that The New York Times said OpenAI used Whisper to transcribe more than a million hours of YouTube video to train GPT-4.