YouTube on Friday announced a program to give away $5 million in grants to top independent vloggers on its site. The grants, which will vary between tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars, are designed to boost the production values of the popular -- and often lo-fi -- videos on its site.
According to Bloomberg, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan has expressed concern regarding the potential misuse of platform content by OpenAI’s Sora, an AI-driven video creation tool.
Shaz from TL writes: “Linus Sebastian’s media company, Linus Media Group, is under fire. From ethical concerns with videos, to allegations of workplace harassment.”
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