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# Runway Ripped Off YouTube Creators
- URL: https://werd.io/runway-ripped-off-youtube-creators/
- Published: 2024-07-25T20:29:41.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-25T20:29:41.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: AI, Notable links, #Import 2025-06-11 21:47

\[[Samantha Cole at 404 Media](https://www.404media.co/email/64056c13-be6e-46e7-8c90-b53dd30026f2/)\]

> "A highly-praised AI video generation tool made by multi-billion dollar company Runway was secretly trained by scraping thousands of videos from popular YouTube creators and brands, as well as pirated films."

[404 Media has linked to the spreadsheet itself](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eO5cwguMHeu63F0vsKRXs%5FdLlcuy%5FP4F/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=105662557213053165487&rtpof=true&sd=true), which seems to be a pretty clear list of YouTube channels and individual videos.

Google is clear that this violates YouTube's rules. The team at Runway also by necessity downloaded the videos first using a third-party tool, which *itself* is a violation of the rules.

This is just a video version of the kinds of copyright and terms violations we've already seen copious amounts of in static media. But Google might be a stauncher defender of its rules than most - although not necessarily for principled reasons, because it, too, is in the business of training AI models on web data, and likely on YouTube content.

[#AI](https://werd.io/tag/AI)

\[[Link](https://www.404media.co/email/64056c13-be6e-46e7-8c90-b53dd30026f2/)\]