Class action: Apple sued over AI training on YouTube channels (heise.de)

• Creators sue Apple over unauthorized AI training.
• Apple admitted usage of YouTube data in research documentation.
• Case highlights legal friction between big tech and copyright.

"A class action lawsuit has been initiated against Apple by YouTube creators in a US court. The legal action follows Apple's disclosure in a research paper that it utilized vast quantities of video data from YouTube for training its proprietary AI models. The plaintiffs allege that this data scraping constitutes a violation of copyright, setting a significant precedent for the intersection of generative AI development and digital intellectual property rights."