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The New York Times details how AI companies, including OpenAI, have dealt with the challenge of gathering high-quality training data. OpenAI reportedly transcribed over a million hours of YouTube videos to train its advanced language model, GPT-4, despite the legal uncertainties surrounding copyright. OpenAI president Greg Brockman was personally involved in collecting the videos.

Earlier this week, The Wall Street Journal reported that AI companies were running into a wall when it comes to gathering high-quality training data. Today, The New York Times detailed some of the ways companies have dealt with this. Unsurprisingly, it involves doing things that fall into the hazy gray area of AI copyright law.

The story opens on OpenAI which, desperate for training data, reportedly developed its Whisper audio transcription model to get over the hump, transcribing over a million hours of YouTube videos to train GPT-4, its most advanced large language model. That’s according to The New York Times, which reports that the company knew this was legally questionable but believed it to be fair use. OpenAI president Greg Brockman was personally involved in collecting videos that were used, the Times write

 

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