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Novak: LA jury finds Meta and YouTube liable for algorithmic addiction
“Yesterday, a Los Angeles jury, both meta and YouTube liable Wah, wah. For a twenty-year-old woman's mental health crisis in a bellwether trial that treated platforms as, quote, defective products, and potentially marks the end to the absolute immunity nature o…”
Novak: Over 10,000 injury cases pending against social media platforms
“There are over 10,000 individual personal, personal injury cases, almost 800 school district claims, and 40 state level cases pending nationwide that are similar to KGM Versus Meta and YouTube.”
Moore: OpenAI scrapes YouTube to train its artificial intelligence models
“I mean, we've seen companies like open AI will scrape YouTube as well to train their models.”
LA jury awards $6 million in Meta and Google youth addiction case
“On March, 25th, a Los Angeles jury found Meta and Google slash YouTube negligent for designing platforms harmful to young people. A woman who said she became addicted to social media as a child was awarded 6000004.2 million against Meta and 1.8 million against…”
Hays: YouTube viewership is now predominantly on TV screens
“YouTube viewership is now, I think, predominantly on the TV.”
Hays: Roughly 50% of YouTube viewership takes place on TVs
“The people don't realize that, that most, I think it's like 50% of YouTube viewership is on TVs.”
Espiritu: Epic Gardening grew from 180k to over 1M YouTube subscribers in 2020
“2020 of course was the year. I think we started that year at a 180 K on YouTube. I ended that year at over a million plus another channel, almost at a hundred K.”
Coogan: YouTube generated over $60 billion last year, beating Netflix
“Staying in the content world, Kalshi shared that just in YouTube generated over sixty billion last year, more than Netflix, and Polymath says YouTube is beating Netflix with this really sneaky content strategy in which their creators make stuff people want to …”
Coogan: Rogan can post full episodes on YouTube, unlike Call Her Daddy
“Rogan is now a couple years out from his Spotify deal. He's allowed to post the full episode on YouTube as well as on Spotify. Call Her Daddy's still in that tweener phase where they have to gate it, and so what went out on YouTube from Call Her Daddy was just…”
Coogan highlights Keras powering ML at YouTube, Netflix, and Waymo
“I mean, he built Keras. Powers ML solutions that countless companies touch. It powers your recommendations on YouTube, Netflix, Spotify, the fraud filtering of your credit card transactions, Waymo cars that drive you around San Francisco.”