See I don't understand this. Training an AI using this content is legal, but how is copying it in the first place to use not illegal? This is what I never understand about these AI cases. If I copy a Youtube video I'm breaking the law, but if I then use my illegal copy to train an AI it retroactively makes my copying legal?
I'm not sure about literally downloading YouTube videos, you might be right about that.
At least under US law, the person downloading the images has to be the same one who trains the model, because giving them to another person is copyright-violating distribution.
To be clear, I'm just sick of corporations being free and clear to do things that would get the rest of us stomped.
No. Only if you redistribute your copy are you violating copyright law.