Tech Giants Accused of "Stealing" YouTube Videos 🤯

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There has been ongoing suspicion that YouTube content was being used without consent to train AI, and a new investigation now seems to confirm this.

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• Major Tech Firms Trained AI Using "Stolen" YouTube Content

• AI Tool Outperforms Standard Tests in Predicting Alzheimer’s Disease Progress

• AI Tutorial: How to create interactive dashboards from PDFs using AI

• AI Tools to check out and AI Job board

• AI Findings/Resources

• The Latest in AI and Tech 💡

AI News

YOUTUBE

Major Tech Firms Trained AI Using "Stolen" YouTube Content

A recent investigation by Proof News, in collaboration with Wired, has revealed that major tech companies have been using YouTube videos to train their AI systems without permission.

Details:

• A dataset of subtitles from over 170,000 YouTube videos across more than 48,000 channels was used by companies like Apple, Anthropic, Nvidia, and Salesforce.

• This public dataset, called The Pile, was created by the non-profit AI research organization EleutherAI.

• It includes subtitles from videos by popular creators like MrBeast and Marques Brownlee, as well as from clips by major news outlets like ABC News, the BBC, and The New York Times.

• The use of YouTube content (including transcripts) for AI training violates YouTube’s terms of service. Both YouTube CEO Neal Mohan and Google CEO Sundar Pichai have pointed this out.

AI companies are rarely transparent about the data used in their systems, and whether this will have legal consequences remains unclear.

You can check if your favorite YouTuber’s content appears in the dataset using Proof News’ interactive lookup tool.

Source

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AI RESEARCH

AI Tool Outperforms Standard Tests in Predicting Alzheimer’s Disease Progress

Researchers at Cambridge University have made a significant breakthrough in Alzheimer’s research with a new AI model that outperforms current standard tests in predicting the progression of the disease.

Details:

• The AI model was trained using cognitive tests and structural MRI data from 400 individuals in the U.S., and its accuracy was validated with 600 U.S. patients and 900 from the UK and Singapore.

• The AI tool correctly identified 82% of patients who would develop Alzheimer's within three years and 81% of those who would not.

• The model was three times more accurate than current clinical assessments, and it also allowed to group patients into three groups: stable, slow progression, and fast progression to Alzheimer's.

This innovative AI model represents a promising advancement in Alzheimer’s care, offering more precise predictions and enabling earlier, more effective interventions. The research team believes it could be introduced into clinical practice very soon.

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AI Tutorial

How to create interactive dashboards from PDFs using AI

1. Go to Claude.ai and log in.

2. Select Claude 3.5 Sonnet as your model.

3. Make sure you have the "Artifacts" feature enabled

4. Click on "Add content" and upload your pdf

5. Add this prompt

Create an interactive PDF dashboard to help me view, test, and learn this information & make it more visually appealing.

6. Claude will then generate code for your PDF dashboard. Once it finishes, you’ll be able to preview and use this dashboard.

*Note: You might get an error when Claude is writing the code, but this is easy to fix: just copy and paste the error into Claude, and it will fix it for you.

6. You can make additional changes, like adding extra tabs to the dashboard by prompting Claude. For example, you can say, "Add a test tab where I can test my knowledge with a 10-question quiz."

Claude will keep the same structure; it will only add to the code it already made.

7. Finally, you can download the dashboard by clicking on the download icon in the bottom right corner.

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AI Findings/Resources

📚 Short Course: Google’s Introduction to Generative AI.

🧠 OpenAI’s 5 Levels Of “Super AI”.

🎬 Scarlett Johansson: Sam Altman could be a decent Marvel villain.

📹 Search the YouTube videos secretly powering generative AI. Does your favorite YouTuber come up?

The latest in AI and Tech

Anthropic's Claude app now available on Android

The Claude Android app will work just like the iOS version released in May. Users can access the advanced Claude 3.5 Sonnet AI model for free, with additional features available through Pro and Team subscriptions.

Google launches “Google Vids”

Google has introduced Vids, an AI-powered video tool in Workspace Labs. Vids aims to make video creation easier by allowing users to integrate documents, slides, voiceovers, and recordings into a timeline to produce presentation videos.

Disney's internal Slack data leaked by hacktivists in protest of AI art

Hacktivist group Nullbulge has leaked over a terabyte of data from Disney's internal Slack channels, including login credentials, code, images, and information about unreleased projects.

Mistral releases Codestral Mamba for enhanced code generation

French AI startup Mistral has launched Codestral Mamba, a new code-generating model based on the Mamba architecture. This model offers faster response times and handles longer input texts, supporting up to 256,000 tokens.

AI Showcase

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