"Over the past few months, I've discovered more than 15.8 million videos from more than 2 million channels that tech companies have, without permission, downloaded to train AI products. Nearly 1 million of them, by my count, are how-to videos. You can find these videos in at least 13 different data sets distributed by AI developers at tech companies, universities, and research organizations, through websites such as Hugging Face, an online AI-development hub."
"It turned out that people liked his candid style, and as he posted more videos, a fan base began to grow. "All of a sudden there's people who appreciate the work I'm doing," he told me. "The comments were a motivator." Fifteen years later, his channel has more than 1 million subscribers. Sometimes he gets photos of people in their shops, following his guidance from a big TV on the wall-most of his viewers, Peters told me, are woodworkers looking to him for instruction."
Jon Peters built a large woodworking audience on YouTube through candid instructional videos and now has over 1 million subscribers. More than 15.8 million YouTube videos from over 2 million channels have been copied without permission to train AI models, including nearly 1 million how-to videos. Those videos appear in at least 13 datasets shared by AI developers, universities, and research organizations on platforms such as Hugging Face. Many of the videos are anonymized, omitting titles and creator names, though unique identifiers enable cross-referencing back to original YouTube uploads. Creators face potential obsolescence as their instructional content is repurposed for AI tools.
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