YouTube Creators Say Amazon Scrapes Videos To Train AI

By Lauren Berg ( April 3, 2026, 10:53 PM EDT) -- A group of YouTube creators say Amazon.com Inc., OpenAI and Apple Inc. have been scraping millions of copyrighted videos to feed, train and commercialize their text-to-video generative AI products by unlawfully circumventing the video platform's technological protection measures, in proposed class actions filed Friday in Seattle and California federal courts....

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