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we're going to be answering some of your questions. We're going to be talking about using

shorts to develop long-form videos. We're going to be talking about what would happen if our YouTube channel got wiped off the face of the earth and we had to start fresh. And we're going to be starting with a headline that came out last week about companies like Apple stealing data from YouTube videos to incorporate into AI models. All right, before we start the show,

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All right, we have a ton of questions from across the internet, from Twitter, from Discord.

Maybe we'll talk about some stuff on Reddit.

But before we get there, there was a very interesting headline last week.

Yes, there was a headline that came out first in Wired that exposed,

that companies like Apple, like Nvidia, like Salesforce,

paid for a data set called YouTube subtitles that scraped the data from over 170,000 YouTube videos from over 48,000

YouTube channels, and then sold that data to these companies, to Apple, to some of these

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