OpenAI developed its Whisper audio transcription model, which was reportedly used to transcribe over a million hours of Alphabet Inc‘s (NASDAQ:GOOGL)(NASDAQ:GOOG) YouTube videos to train GPT-4. The initiative, described as a means to navigate the challenge of limited training data availability, stirred discussions around the legality and ethics of such data acquisition practices, The New York Times reported. See Also: Sam Altman’s $7 Trillion AI Ambition: Is OpenAI’s CEO Stretching Too Far? Expert Weighs In The newspaper highlighted OpenAI was aware of the legal uncertainties surrounding this …