You think you know YouTube. It’s where billions of people learn how to change a tire, follow a favorite yoga workout or catch footage
But maybe you don’t know that YouTube is also the most popular way to hear music and one of the country’s largest cable TV providers. YouTube is the healthiest economy on the internet. And it has been rocket fuel for artificial intelligence. I’m digging into YouTube’s identity because it’s essential to understand the influence of technologies in our lives. As popular as YouTube is, its power over the internet and us is somehowYouTube is No. 1 in video and music listeningfrom Nielsen consistently shows that Americans spend more time watching YouTube on TV sets than we do any streaming service including Netflix.
There isn’t reliable data counting the combined time we stream on TV, phones, computers and other devices, but YouTube would likely be tops on that measure, too.of MIDiA Research, about two-thirds of respondents watched music videos on YouTube. About 43 percent listened to music online another way and 31 percent have a streaming music subscription like those from Spotify and Apple Music.
What OpenAI did might violate YouTube’s terms of service and what Google did might violate the copyright of people who make YouTube videos, the Times reported.