Reddit debates Google blocking OpenAI from YouTube data while Gemini enjoys full access
BenKlesc · reddit · 2026-10-02
A Reddit discussion accuses Google of leveraging platform ownership for AI advantage: YouTube uses robots.txt rules and IP-blocking to stop OpenAI's crawlers from scraping video data, descriptions, and transcripts, so OpenAI cannot natively "watch" or stream YouTube URLs, while Gemini has full YouTube analysis capability.
The poster compares it to allowing YouTube only in Chrome, questioning why this anti-competitive move in AI has faced no regulatory scrutiny. The thread centers on platform ownership and AI data access disputes.
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