TECH - Is OpenAI's Viral AI Video Generator Sora Trained On YouTube And Instagram? CTO Mira Murati Is 'Not Sure' | Benzinga
Leading AI startup OpenAI is facing accusations of violating data protection laws. The allegations stem from the lab’s use of public social media posts to train its new video generation model, Sora.
What Happened: In a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal's Joanna Stern, OpenAI’s CTO Mira Murati refused to answer whether the Microsoft Corp.-backed (NASDAQ:MSFT) startup used public videos on platforms of rival companies like Alphabet Inc.'s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google and Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META).
"We used publicly available data and licensed data."
When asked if OpenAI used videos from YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, Murati said she is not "actually sure" and that she won't "go into the details." "If they were publicly available to use, there might be data [used]. But I'm not sure, I'm not confident about it."
This sparked speculation that OpenAI might have used publicly available ...