Creators say they didn’t know Google uses YouTube to train AI Google confirmed it's training AI on YouTube videos — but creators say they had no idea. Even 1% of YouTube’s library of 20+ billion videos equals 2 billion minutes of training data. Veo 3 outputs closely match real creator’s clips, but creators can’t opt out of internal Google use. Google says it offers protections, but critics warn of a looming copyright crisis — and artists being automated out of relevance.