TapTechNews August 6th news, a YouTube host filed a class action lawsuit document to the Northern District Court of California last Friday, accusing OpenAI of arbitrarily scraping millions of YouTube video scripts without notifying the video owners or providing compensation to them, and using them to train the AI generation model.
The host, named David Millette, from Massachusetts, USA, accused OpenAI of scraping his and other host creators' videos for training AI models, involving products such as ChatGPT, Sora, etc.
The class action lawsuit document believes that OpenAI collected these data and received 'substantial rewards', but this practice violates the copyright law and YouTube's terms of service.
Millette currently entrusts Bursor & Fisher law firm to advance this class action lawsuit. The plaintiff requests a jury trial and demands that all YouTube users and creators whose data may be involved in OpenAI training compensate more than 5 million US dollars (TapTechNews note: currently about 35.683 million Chinese yuan).