OpenAI created Whisper, an open source speech-to-text tool, for scraping text content from YouTube and podcasts for GPT-4:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/technology/tech-giants-harvest-data-artificial-intelligence.html?unlocked_article_code=1.iU0.RRzX.q1A0MFaxpfeQ
Questions about copyright were set aside because Google had been doing similar things and wouldn't be able to call out OpenAI without incriminating themselves.
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