Ever since AI came into the picture, content creators, media conglomerates, and professional authors have been complaining about AI companies using their copyrighted materials to train their AI models. Speaking of which, you’re likely aware that The New York Times sued OpenAI for allegedly training its AI model using the publication’s articles. Honestly, there are numerous cases as such, but a recent one involves Snapchat. A group of YouTubers who previously sued multiple companies for scraping their videos to train AI models have now filed a lawsuit against Snap for the same reason.
YouTubers’ lawsuit accuses Snap of training AI models that power one of Snapchat’s features
The news comes via TechCrunch, which reports that, in a fresh lawsuit, the YouTubers’ group has alleged that Snap used their videos to train its model, which powers the “Imagine Lens” feature. For those unaware, the feature allows Snapchat users to modify images using text prompts. Notably, the lawsuit has reportedly been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
Per the lawsuit, Snap used large-scale video and language datasets such as HD-VILA-100M. The YouTubers’ group argues that those datasets are strictly available for academic or research use. In the lawsuit, YouTubers further added that Snap bypassed YouTube’s technical safeguards, terms of service, and licensing rules. For those unaware, all those policies explicitly restrict commercial exploitation.
So, what are YouTubers seeking out of the Snap lawsuit, you may ask, right? Well, they are asking for statutory damages as well as a permanent injunction to prevent further alleged copyright infringement. As reported, the creators behind the popular h3h3 YouTube channel are leading this lawsuit. Additionally, some smaller creators from YouTube channels MrShortGame Golf and Golfholics have also joined in.
This isn’t the first case of copyright infringement, though
As mentioned earlier, this isn’t the first case where YouTubers have filed a lawsuit against a tech companies, like Snap. There are reportedly 70 copyright infringement lawsuits filed against AI companies, according to data from the nonprofit Copyright Alliance. Worth noting that the same YouTubers has filed lawsuits against big AI giants like NVIDIA and Meta for similar reasons. Given that in many cases courts have ruled in favor of tech companies, it’ll be interesting to see the outcome of this lawsuit.
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