August 20, 2026
A California federal judge has denied a bid from the company that owns video-messaging app Snapchat to escape allegations from a group of YouTube creators that their content was illegally ingested to train artificial intelligence, saying the YouTubers had sufficiently laid out how users encounter measures meant to protect videos.
January 27, 2026
Snapchat has been hit with a proposed class action in California federal court by YouTubers who claim the social media platform wrongfully scraped copyrighted videos to train its artificial intelligence model.