AI Video Generator Runway Trained on Thousands of YouTube Videos Without Permission.

Runway is an applied artificial intelligence research company that aims to shape the next era of art, entertainment and human creativity. To achieve this coveted goal, the company recently released an AI specialised in video generation.

The launch of the Jupiter model, released as Gen-3, was an immediate success within the technology environment, especially for artificial intelligence enthusiasts. Furthermore, the company received considerable support from other big names in the industry, including Google and Nvidia - even before the model's release.

However, not all that glitters is gold. According to an internal document containing training data obtained by 404 Media, the media outlet behind the article we are referring to, the training of the much-loved model in question consisted in scraping thousands of videos of popular YouTube creators and brands, as well as a large amount of pirated films.