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Yet another OpenAI executive has been caught lacking on camera when asked if the Sora video generator was trained using YouTube videos.

Another OpenAI Executive Choked When Asked If Sora Was Trained on YouTube Data

By Noor Al-Sibai

As the New York Times reports, OpenAI trained its GPT-4 large language model (LLM) with over a million hours of transcribed YouTube videos.

OpenAI Secretly Trained GPT-4 With More Than a Million Hours of Transcribed YouTube Videos

By Victor Tangermann

An endless AI-generated "Family Guy" show on YouTube called "AI Peter" has devolved into ear-bruising chaos.

Artificial Intelligence

AI-Powered “Family Guy” Stream Devolves Into Endless Screaming

By Victor Tangermann

MrBeast, one of the world's most famous YouTubers, is begging wannabe influencers not to follow in his footsteps.

MrBeast Warns Youth Not to Be Like Him

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new report reveals that YouTube is filling up with AI-generated kids' videos, designed to glean cash via lucrative toddler eyeballs.

Kids Are Watching Brain Melting AI-Generated Videos on YouTube Without Parents Realizing

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

YouTube has had it with you blocking the damn ads on its platform — and it's willing to make the experience as miserable as possible.

YouTube Threatens to Become Even More Horrendous If You Have an Ad Blocker

By Victor Tangermann

YouTube will soon make users add a disclaimer when they post artificial intelligence-generated or manipulated videos.

Artificial Intelligence

YouTube Creators Will Be Forced To Disclose AI Content

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a new video, mad inventor and popular YouTuber Colin Furze built an oversized, counterweight arm to offset almost all of his body weight.

Robots and Machines

YouTube Inventor Builds Incredibly Fun-Looking Weightlessness Machine

By Victor Tangermann

A YouTube prankster has been shot in the abdomen at a Virginia mall after a stranger didn't take kindly to his latest prank.

YouTuber Gets Shot for Prank, Pledges to Keep Making More Prank Videos

By Victor Tangermann

North Korea's government is desperately trying to appear more relatable to the outside world by grooming a number of YouTubers.

Experts Say There’s Something Very Weird About North Korean YouTubers

By Victor Tangermann

A laser-sighted, automatic gun that shoots knives with deadly accuracy -- the perfect weapon for a hypothetical zombie apocalypse?

Robots and Machines

We’re Obsessed With This Laser-Sighted Gun That Shoots Knives

By Victor Tangermann

A children's videos distributor is releasing a collection of NFTs based on Blippi, an IP created by a YouTuber who once defecated on his friend.

YouTuber Who Blasted Friend With Explosive Diarrhea Selling NFTs to Children Now

By Victor Tangermann

One of the biggest music channels on YouTube called Lofi Girl has been taken down due to a "false" Content ID copyright claim.

Iconic Lofi Hip Hop Girl Videos Taken Down by Copyright Strikes

By Victor Tangermann

YouTube is once again screwing up its content moderation after designating a horror video as "for kids" and not allowing the creator to change the rating.

YouTube Marked Horror Video as “For Kids,” Wouldn’t Let Creator Reverse It

By Noor Al-Sibai

YouTuber Shane Wighton from the channel "Stuff Made Here" has created a terrifying bow that literally aims itself and never misses.

Robots and Machines

Inventor Builds Auto-Aiming Bow That Never Misses

By Victor Tangermann

A YouTube channel called Tech Support Scams dedicated to rooting out scammers and unmasking them, fell victim to a tech support scammer.

YouTube Channel That Hunts Scammers Falls for Scam, Deletes Itself

By Victor Tangermann

YouTuber Wins $10,000 Bet Against Physicist, Drives Wind-Powered Car

Advanced Transport

YouTuber Wins $10,000 Bet Against Physicist, Drives Wind-Powered Car

By Tony Ho Tran

YouTube tinkerer Shane Wighton behind the channel Stuff Made Here built a chainsaw-wielding robotic arm that can chisel a dog shape out of bits of foam.

Check Out This Deadly Robot Arm With an Actual Chainsaw

By Victor Tangermann

YouTube says that there is a "disturbing trend" of staged animal rescue videos. Now, they're putting policy in place to identify and ban the videos.

YouTube Banning Staged Animal Rescue Videos

By Tony Ho Tran

A creator on YouTube created a CGI version of himself using a powerful new app — and used it to prank his friends on a video call.

Virtual Reality

This Guy Made a CGI Version of Himself to Fool His Friends on Videochat

By Tony Ho Tran

Engineers behind the epic YouTube account Hacksmith Industries have created a functioning hoverboard that actually hovers like the real thing.

Inventors Create Working Hoverboard

By Victor Tangermann

In Chaotic Project, Mechanic Installs Gas Engine in Tesla

In Chaotic Project, Mechanic Installs Gas Engine in Tesla

By Victor Tangermann

A former YouTube content moderator just sued over psychological trauma induced by being overworked and undersupported while flagging graphic videos.

YouTube Content Moderator Sues Over Psychological Trauma

By Dan Robitzski

A firm managing content moderation for YouTube forced its employees to sign a document acknowledging that the job might give them PTSD.

YouTube Mods Forced to Sign Doc Acknowledging They Might Get PTSD

By Kristin Houser

YouTubers from "The Hacksmith" have made great progress on their half scale Tesla Cybertruck, drifting around a snowy parking lot in their latest video.

Advanced Transport

Watch This Adorable Mini Cybertruck Drift in the Snow

By Victor Tangermann

YouTube deleted hundreds of cryptocurrency videos earlier this week. Now it says they're back and called the whole thing a mistake.

YouTube Calls Mass Deletion of Cryptocurrency Videos a Mistake

By Dan Robitzski

Eight-year-old YouTuber Ryan Kaji raked in $26 million in 2019, making him YouTube's top earner for the second year in a row, according to Forbes.

YouTube’s Top Earner Is an 8-Year-Old Who Reviews Toys

By Kristin Houser

Watch YouTubers Build a Functional Half-Scale Cybertruck, Because Why Not?

Advanced Transport

Watch YouTubers Build a Functional Half-Scale Cybertruck, Because Why Not?

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk announced Tuesday that he's donating $1 million worth of trees to a campaign by YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, better known as "MrBeast."

Elon Musk Donates a Million Dollars to Plant a Million Trees

By Victor Tangermann

In this deepfake, former U.S. president Barack Obama takes over for Chadwick Boseman as the Marvel superhero Black Panther.

Someone Deepfaked Barack Obama Into “Black Panther”

By Victor Tangermann

YouTubers systematically tested over 15,000 keywords to demonstrate that YouTube is automatically demonetizing LGBTQ content.

Is YouTube Demonetizing Videos That Mention LGBTQ Words?

By Dan Robitzski

YouTube influencers feel constant pressure to churn out content, prompting some — including Christine Sydelko — to give up the gig.

YouTube Influencers Are Mentally Collapsing From Stress

By Kristin Houser

$YouTube Kids is using basic math problems to ensure that young children don't access content that they're not supposed to be watching.$

YouTube’s Plan to Protect Your Kids from Watching ISIS Snuff Films: Math Problems

By Victor Tangermann

YouTube is suing a Nebraska man for allegedly lauching a swatting attack against a popular Minecraft streamer after attempting to extort money from them.

YouTube Sues Man for Allegedly Swatting a Minecraft Streamer

By Kristin Houser

YouTube accidentally took down videos of robots fighting, claiming they included portrayals of animal violence and cock fighting.

YouTube Accidentally Removed Robot Battle Videos for “Animal Cruelty”

By Victor Tangermann

YouTubers who discuss LGBTQ issues are suing YouTube after finding that their videos get demonetized or age restricted on the site.

LGBTQ YouTubers File Suit Over Discrimination

By Dan Robitzski

A new survey reveals that teens tend to trust social media and YouTube personalities more than they do established news outlets.

Teens Now Trust YouTubers More Than Journalists

By Dan Robitzski

YouTube moderators tell the Washington Post that the company lets its most popular content creators get away with things other couldn't.

YouTube Lets Its Stars Break Rules, Say Moderators

By Kristin Houser

A number of millennial farmers in the U.S. are making more money talking about farming on their YouTube channels than from farming itself.

Millennial Farmers Make More Money on YouTube Than From Farming

By Victor Tangermann

The YouTube search bar frequently autocompletes queries with major movie and TV spoilers — yet another example of the site's content moderation struggles.

YouTube’s Autocomplete Feature Has a Huge Spoiler Problem

By Jon Christian

According to a new survey, American and British kids would much rather become YouTubers than astronauts, while the opposite is true in China.

Astronauts Are Out. American Kids Would Rather Be YouTubers.

By Dan Robitzski

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Prosthetics and Devices

A Guy Got a QR Code Tattoo and Then Someone Broke the Link

By Dan Robitzski

Fans of YouTube star PewDiePie have taken to ransomware attacks in order to try and drive up PewDiePie's subscriber count.

Science & Energy

New Virus Steals Your Files Until PewDiePie Gets 100M Subscribers

By Dan Robitzski

YouTube is disabling all commenting on videos of kids in an effort to stop the "soft-core pedophilia ring" exploiting its website.

To Fight Pedophiles, YouTube Disables Comments on Videos Featuring Kids

By Kristin Houser

YouTube pulled programmatic ad placements on a number of anti-vaccination or anti-vax related channels, BuzzFeed News reports.

YouTube Starts Pulling Ads on Anti-Vaccination Videos

By Victor Tangermann

A video exposing the prevalence of YouTube pedophiles has caused advertisers to flee the platform, but what can it do to actually address the problem?

While Pedophiles Flock to YouTube, Advertisers Flee It

By Kristin Houser

According to a new study, the growth of the number of people who think the Earth is flat is directly tied to the growth of conspiracy theories on YouTube.

New Research: YouTube Caused The “Flat Earther” Epidemic

By Jon Christian

The Digest: YouTube Tweaks Site Design, Dedicates $25 Million to Combat “Fake News”

The Digest: YouTube Tweaks Site Design, Dedicates $25 Million to Combat “Fake News”

By Kristin Houser

Dare to Eat the World’s Hottest Chili Peppers? Beware of “Thunderclap” Headaches

Dare to Eat the World’s Hottest Chili Peppers? Beware of “Thunderclap” Headaches

By Claudia Geib

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YouTube Cracks Down on Eligibility Requirements for Which Video Channels Can be Monetized

By Chelsea Gohd

Drugs, Rape, Massacres: How AI Is Exposing Children to the Worst of Humanity

Drugs, Rape, Massacres: How AI Is Exposing Children to the Worst of Humanity

By David Vincent Kimel

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Everything You Need to Know About Nuclear Physics

By Kelsey R. Marquart

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Live out Your Jedi Master Dreams by Making a Real-Life Lightsaber

By Kelsey R. Marquart

Another Win! Google’s Artificial Intelligence Beats the World Champion of Go For the Second Time

Another Win! Google’s Artificial Intelligence Beats the World Champion of Go For the Second Time

By Sarah Marquart