Are tech giants ignoring their own policies in order to train their AI systems?

Cade Metz explains how OpenAI, Google and Meta are scraping data using highly questionable methods

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In the race to develop the smartest AI model, big companies like Google, Meta and OpenAI are going to great lengths to harvest everything already on the Internet — lengths that may violate their own policies, and even copyright law.
Host Elamin Abdelmahmoud speaks with Cade Metz(external link), a New York Times technology reporter who's been investigating this issue, about what this means for online creators and the future of AI, and what protections could come into place.
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Interview with Cade Metz produced by Jess Low.

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