Alex Reisner

They're really easy to use.

And it's pretty common for AI developers to just use those tools.

And it's just kind of become a custom.

But also, you know, and that includes...

If stuff on YouTube is just less protected, I think is one way of saying it.

Like there's music, you know, if you're a musician, your song might be on Spotify, but Spotify's website has digital rights management protections.

It's really hard to download from Spotify.

It's much easier to get the same song from YouTube and so many songs are also on YouTube.

So I think it's just ease of downloading.

Yeah, that's a question that's been in the back of my head for a long time and which I've asked YouTube and which they don't really answer.

They have said that they consider it a violation of their terms of service to be downloading their videos.

But yeah, years have passed and it's just as easy to download from YouTube now as it was a few years ago.

Yeah, that's a huge question.

I think it has something to do with the fact that we just have not done a great job

in this country with establishing the value of data.

and who should be able to have data, right?

This is something that privacy advocates have talked about.

Jaron Lanier, I think, was one of the earliest people to be talking about this.

I think he wrote in 2007 that you should get paid, like you were being surveilled, basically, and companies are taking, they're monitoring everything you do.

They're generating data from your online activity.