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Lemkin: OpenAI and Anthropic Lied About Books and YouTube Training Data
“Open AI, an anthropic, Kind of lied about the books, and they definitely lied about training on YouTube”
Ian Lee: NFT-Powered Spotify and YouTube Alternatives Will Emerge by 2024
“So good example of this is that I think that like NFT powered commerce in Web three, NFT powered digital media and various kind of social media platforms. That I knew or believed were gonna happen in 10 years or so, I think are now possible in the next two to …”
Sideman: YouTube removed hundreds of thousands of Syrian war documentation videos
“I'll give you an example that happened this month. YouTube decided to take down hundreds of thousands of videos that documented the war in Syria.”
Cohen: US YouTube connected TV watch time now exceeds Netflix
“One of our very interesting stats I've noticed more recently was, so in the US, more hours are consumed of YouTube on connected TVs than Netflix.”
Apple's original iPhone YouTube app only supported half of YouTube's content
“Apple built the first YouTube app on the iPhone, and they just kept doing it. They kept building the YouTube app, so we actually didn't control the YouTube experience on the iPhone, and over time, it had just fallen out of date. Apple developers couldn't keep …”
YouTube chose experience consistency over comprehensiveness, refusing to link out
“We said, okay, consistency matters more than comprehensiveness, and we had our sort of 10 principles of YouTube, and this was one of them, I think it was number two, and we made our decision. We're not going to link out”
Shulman: YouTube is More Engaging Than Spotify Based on Ad ARPU
“Like YouTube is more engaging than Spotify as measured by the amount of, you know, the ARPU for ads, for example, right?”
Braun Discovered Ariana Grande via a YouTube Cover of Justin Bieber
“She sang a cover of Justin's called die in your arms. I saw it on YouTube and I was like, why is Nickelodeon not signing this girl?”
YouTube set a 2012 target to reach 1 billion daily watch hours
“Basically in 2012, I set a goal for YouTube that we would get to a billion hours a day of watch time by the end of 20 16. It was a four year goal.”