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>i can safely assume that bytedance was scraping youtube videos by abusing our private api

I'm not doubting the OP. But why is ByteDance doing this? What does that company get out of scraping YouTube?

Like every other tech giant they're in the AI arms race, and in particular they are building video generation models. It's probably safe to assume they are trying to grab as much of YouTube as possible for use as training material.

https://decrypt.co/284353/tiktok-maker-powerful-ai-video-gen...

Nothing because the OP is lying. It's not Bytedance, it's Byteplus, their cloud product. Think of it as AWS.

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