YouTube argues its terms of service allow AI training on indie artists' music without explicit consent
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Rachel Scharf
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YouTube and Google have argued in a legal filing that their terms of service allow them to train AI models on music uploaded by independent artists, sparking alarm among indie music advocates who say this constitutes 'not informed consent.' The platform's broad terms of service language, which many artists clicked through without full understanding, is now being used to justify AI training on their creative work without explicit permission or compensation.
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· 3 pulledWhat many artists likely didn't realize when they clicked 'agree' to the platform's terms of service is that YouTube, and its parent company Google, would later claim the agreement justifies training artificial intelligence models on their music.
This is not informed consent — artists didn't know they were signing away their rights to have their music used for AI training.
The legal filing reveals a fundamental tension between platform terms of service and artists' expectations about how their creative work will be used.
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