Google is using a subset of YouTube videos to train its AI tools, including its text-to video-product Veo, in a move that is making many YouTubers unhappy.

Some YouTubers want an opt-out option or a way to get compensated specifically for AI training. They’re also worried that they’ll eventually get muscled out by AI competition.

YouTube, the most popular online video portal in the U.S., says it has paid more than $70 billion to creators, artists and media companies from 2021 to 2023.

Santa Ana-based entrepreneur Charlie Chang spent years posting finance videos on YouTube before he made a profit.

Today, Chang’s media business oversees more than 50 YouTube channels, along with other digital sites, and generates $3 million to $4 million in annual revenue, he said.

But lately, he’s been

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