Apple. AAPL The company clarified that OpenELM models are not used to power its AI or machine learning features, including Apple Intelligence, a clarification that comes amid reports that it uses YouTube subtitles for training.
what happenedIn a statement to 9to5Mac on Thursday, Apple confirmed that the OpenELM model, announced in April, was developed solely for research purposes and as a contribution to the open source large-scale language model development community.
Apple's statement comes in the wake of an investigation that revealed that Apple and other tech companies had used more than 170,000 YouTube subtitles to train their AI models.
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However, Apple has clarified that the OpenELM models that are currently accessible on Apple's machine learning research website are not used for any of its Apple Intelligence features.
Apple has previously said that its Intelligence models are trained on “licensed data, including selected data to power specific features, as well as public data collected by our web crawlers.”
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The “YouTube Captions” dataset is part of a larger collection called “The Pile” from nonprofit EleutherAI and is not used to power Apple Intelligence.
He added that Apple has no plans to develop a new version of the OpenELM model.
Why is this important?The issue of tech companies using YouTube videos to train AI models without the creators' consent has been a hot topic. Apple has been called out for such practices, and tech YouTuber Marques Brownleeor MKBHD, expressed concerns about Apple's use of YouTube content for AI training.
Additionally, AI startups like OpenAI and Anthropic have stirred controversy by being accused of ignoring the rules of web scraping. This has given rise to platforms like: Reddit, Inc. Update your policies to block automated website scraping.
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