The report shows that tech giants like Meta, Microsoft, and Nvidia have downloaded over 15.8 million YouTube videos without permission. This content, scraped from more than 2 million channels, is being used to train powerful generative AI video models. However, these tools don’t address a core issue: Google itself continues to use YouTube content to train its own models, like Veo 3. While he called its AI models “quintessentially transformative,” he condemned Anthropic’s use of pirated books from “shadow libraries” as an “original sin” that amounted to theft. This judicial scrutiny has thrown the case, and the industry’s legal strategy, into chaos.