Prominent tech YouTuber Marquis Brownlee Wednesday took a Xpreviously Twitterand criticized a “random AI company” claiming it used his image without asking permission.
What happened: The AI company called “Agent Gold” has apparently launched its “first product: AI chatbots of all your favorite YouTubers” on Product huntan American website that helps users share and discover new products, earlier this year.
Brownlee said that this company equipped with an AI chatbot to chat with YouTubers never asked for his consent to use the YouTuber’s likeness.
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“There’s a random AI company that parades around an AI chatbot to ‘chat with a YouTuber’ and it’s so incredibly bad. It just tells lies. They also never had permission to use my image, and I suspect many others on this list were never even asked. Avoid this TRASH,” he said.
This includes other YouTubers that users can chat with on the platform Jimmy Donaldsonpopularly known as MrBeast, Lex Fridman, Lilly Singh AND Diana Cowernpopularly known as she Youtube channel name Physics girl.
In response to one user, Brownlee said he doesn’t mind the AI platform using his videos to train the chatbot, but it’s the use of “similarity” without permission that concerns him. “It’s actually not the AI training on my videos that I question, it’s the use of my image without permission (that’s why Meta had to use code names).”
Replying to another user, Brownlee said he’s “actually fine” with companies using his likeness, as long as they refrain from using his real name for promotional purposes.
As an illustration, he cited Meta AI’s chatbot, which uses MrBeast’s image but adopts the names “Zach” and “The Funny Man” as identifiers.
Agent Gold did not immediately respond to Benzinga’s request for comment.
At this point it is unclear whether Brownlee intends to take legal action against Officer Gold.
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