If you read the article you find this was a dataset from a nonprofit, available to anyone. The nonprofit used captions from a set of YouTube videos.

“Most of the Pile’s datasets are accessible and open for anyone on the internet with enough space and computing power to access them.”

That anyone included a lot of other big names in tech, not just Apple.

Also I wasn’t aware that Apple had its own AI. I thought they were licensing stuff from others like OpenAI. I guess maybe this is some research project for an unannounced project?

And…?

Not defending Apple here, but everyone with a vested interest in AI is doing it. Nobody is asking permission or respecting copyright in this race to the bottom.

No consent? I bet Google said yes.

Shocking!

they don't respect us? gasp!

Yeah?

AI models have been trained on every comment and JPG on the internet... and commercial movies on DVD... and every book in the library.

Shoveling all of the content through a sluice of linear algebra is pretty dang transformative. The more they use, the less any piece matters.

Oh look apple biased mkbhd