# A proposed class action lawsuit accuses the company of scraping millions of YouTube videos to train an AI model.

*genai · news · 2026-04-07 · PhoneArena*

## Key points

- Apple is accused of scraping millions of YouTube videos to train an AI model.
- Three YouTube creators allege Apple bypassed YouTube's anti-scraping protections for this purpose.
- Apple's Panda-70M dataset indexes YouTube videos by URL, video ID, and timestamp, not by storing videos.
- Amazon and OpenAI face similar lawsuits over the same Panda-70M dataset and alleged practices.

**Companies:** Apple, Amazon, OpenAI
**Countries:** United States

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