OpenAI, under Sam Altman's leadership, utilized millions of hours of YouTube transcripts to train its GPT-4 model.

The company's president, Greg Brockman, played a direct role in gathering the YouTube video data.

OpenAI's actions, which it considered fair use, might have been illegal in regard to YouTube's content policies.

Google, which owns YouTube, prohibits unauthorized data scraping and has been made aware of OpenAI's potential infringement.

Reports from last year indicated OpenAI's use of YouTube data in AI training, an operation now supported by Microsoft.

OpenAI employs a mix of public and non-public data sources to stay competitive in global AI research.

The company is facing increased scrutiny over its data collection methods for AI development, particularly concerning YouTube content.