AI labs are buying used books. Not e-books, not licensed datasets — pallets of physical, printed books, sourced by brokers who pitch the deal in blunt terms: the best training data left is sitting on a shelf, because it was printed before generative AI existed to pollute it. At the same time, a whole tier […]
YouTube Changes How It Counts Views On Long-Form and Live
YouTube is changing what counts as a “view” across long-form videos and live streams. The new rule counts a view starting from a video’s first frame, matching how Shorts have always been counted, rather than requiring the intentional-play threshold long-form video has used until now. What’s changing Going forward, YouTube will count views from the […]