Apple has refuted using unethically obtained data to train Apple Intelligence — but it has acknowledged its use for another project.
Apple Intelligence
Apple Intelligence
On Tuesday, it was learned that an AI research lab called EleutherAI had harvested subtitles from YouTube videos without express permission from the creators. It also gathered data from Wikipedia, the English Parliament, and Enron staff emails. The data was then added to a dataset called “the Pile.”
EleutherAI notes that its goal was to lower the barrier to AI development for those outside Big Tech. However, companies such as Nvidia, Salesforce, and Apple have all used the Pile to train various AI projects.