Grant Program
Research
Grantee Name
ASPIRATION in partnership with Proof
Grant Start Date
1 January 2024
Grant End Date
31 March 2025
Amount Funded
US$382,836
Country
Not Country-Specific
Region
Global
Research Question
- This experiment will help determine if short form scientifically-precise video can be made compelling enough to start building a healthier and more trustworthy information ecosystem.
Media and Publications
- Search the YouTube Videos Secretly Powering Generative AI Tool to search from a dataset containing subtitles from 173,536 YouTube videos taken from more than 48,000 channels that were used by Silicon Valley heavyweights, including Anthropic, Nvidia, Apple, and Salesforce, according to their own research papers and posts.
- Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI Article explaining subtitles from 173,536 YouTube videos, siphoned from more than 48,000 channels, were used by Silicon Valley heavyweights, including Anthropic, Nvidia, Apple, and Salesforce.
- Was your favorite YouTube channel used to train AI? Video explaining subtitles from 173,536 YouTube videos, siphoned from more than 48,000 channels, were used by Silicon Valley heavyweights, including Anthropic, Nvidia, Apple, and Salesforce.
- What’s in your news? Introducing ingredient labels that eflect the key elements of the scientific method – the hypothesis, the sample size, the techniques of analysis, key findings and the limitations of findings.
- Proof Ingredients Video series using ingredient labels
- How AI is Hogging the Electric Grid Climate investigation video without ingredients label
- “The Public has a Right to Know Where our Resources are Going” Climate investigation article with ingredients label
- Ingredients: Reporter Aaron Gordon on how he investigated the climate impacts of AI Climate investigation video with ingredients label
- AI’s Power Grab: How AI is Hogging the Electric Grid Climate investigation article without ingredients label
- AI’s Carbon Footprint: How AI is Killing Climate Goals Climate investigation article without ingredients label
- How AI is Killing Climate Goals Climate investigation video without ingredients label
- General Purpose AI Uses 20 to 30 Times More Energy than Task-Specific AI Climate investigation article with ingredients label
- Ingredients: Dr. Sasha Luccioni on the energy usage of AI Climate investigation video with ingredients label
- AI’s Unquenchable Thirst: How AI is Guzzling up the Water Supply Climate investigation article without ingredients label
- How AI is Guzzling Up the Water Supply Climate investigation video without ingredients label
- AI Water Usage Eclipses the Biggest Beverage Companies in the World Climate investigation article with ingredients label
- Ingredients: Dr. Shaolei Ren on AI’s extraordinary water consumption Climate investigation video with ingredients label