Dare to Free-Ride on Academic Data? YouTube Creators Sue Snapchat for Illegal AI Training
Multiple YouTube creators have sued Snapchat, accusing it of using their channel videos to train commercial AI without permission. The dispute centers around the use of the HD-VILA-100M dataset, which is licensed only for academic research but has been used for commercial AI development, allegedly infringing on copyright. This marks the expansion of AI copyright disputes from text to the video domain.