Apple is accused of scraping YouTube videos without permission to train its AI models, sparking a class-action lawsuit filed by three YouTube channels. The suit alleges Apple circumvented YouTube's security measures to collect footage, violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The lawsuit, filed in California, targets Apple's use of the Panda-70M dataset, explicitly composed of scraped YouTube content. Ted Entertainment, owner of h3h3Productions, leads the action alongside MrShortGameGolf and Golfholics, representing creators whose works were ingested without consent.

The plaintiffs seek class certification, damages, and an injunction against Apple's ongoing infringement. This legal action underscores escalating tensions between AI developers and content creators over unauthorized data use, following similar lawsuits against other tech giants.