"A group of YouTubers suing tech giants for scraping their videos without permission to train AI models has now added Snap to their list of defendants. The plaintiffs, internet content creators behind a trio of YouTube channels with roughly 6.2 million collective subscribers, allege that Snap has trained its AI systems on their video content for AI features like the app's " Imagine Lens," which allows users to edit images using prompts."
"In the newly filed proposed class action suit, filed on Friday in the Central District court in California, the YouTubers specifically call out Snap for its use of the large-scale, video-language data set known as HD-VILA-100M, and others similarly designed for only academic and research purposes. To use these datasets, the plaintiffs claim Snap routed around YouTube's technological restrictions, terms of service, and licensing limitations for commercial purposes."
Internet content creators behind three YouTube channels with about 6.2 million subscribers allege Snap used their videos to train AI systems that power features like the Imagine Lens. The creators previously sued Nvidia, Meta, and ByteDance over similar scraping claims and have now added Snap in a proposed class action filed in the Central District of California. The suit cites Snap's use of the HD-VILA-100M video-language dataset and alleges Snap bypassed YouTube's technological restrictions, terms of service, and licensing limits to use research-only datasets for commercial purposes. Plaintiffs seek statutory damages and a permanent injunction, led by h3h3 and two golf channels.
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