YouTubers are suing Snap for violating their rights to train its AI models

A group of YouTubers who are suing the tech giant for dumping their videos without permission to train AI models have now added Snap to the list of defendants. Opponents – the online content maker behind three YouTube channels with nearly 6.2 million subscribers – say Snap has trained its AI systems on their videos to be used in AI products such as the app.Imagine Lens,” which allows users to edit images using audio.

The defendants filed similar charges Nvidia, Meta, and ByteDance for similar things.

In the class that has just been assigned suitfiled on Friday in the US District Court for the Central District of California, YouTubers have sued Snap for using large amounts of video data, known as. HD-VILA-100Metc. which are intended for educational and research purposes only. In order to use the database for commercial purposes, the plaintiffs allege that Snap circumvented YouTube’s technical, service privacy, and licensing restrictions, which prohibit commercial use.

The court is seeking injunctive relief and an injunction against the alleged violation.

The case itself is led by the creators behind the h3h3 is The YouTube channel, with 5.52 million subscribers, and the mini-golf channels MrShortGame Golf and Golfholics.

It’s now one of the many cases that confuse manufacturers against AI model providers, who have included personal arguments from printers, writers, newspaper, user-generated pages, artistsand More information. It is again not the first story from a YouTuber. According to the non-profit organization Copyright Alliance, more than 70 cases of copyright infringement have been filed against AI companies.

Sometimes, like one in the middle Meta is a group of writersthe judge has ruled in favor of the expert. Others, as in the middle Anthropic is a group of authorsThe AI ​​giant has settled and paid the plaintiffs to settle their claims. Many cases are still pending.

Snap has been approached for comment. TechCrunch will update if provided.