Global Media Consult, a strategy and business consulting firm serving the international audiovisual industry, has begun supplying rights-cleared video and audio content for AI training and model development.
The dedicated unit is led by Christian Knaebel, founder and MD of Global Media Consult (pictured). Called Content Aimbassy, it is described as a curated, deal-based, operationally ready brokerage for large-scale international audiovisual datasets.
Knaebel says Content Aimbassy meets the need for multilingual, legally clean datasets.
The content collection includes 47,000 hours of scripted content, from low-budget productions to high-end drama, in multiple languages, plus 75,000 hours of multi-lingual news and interviews, and 96,000 hours of sports.
There are also 60,000 hours of documentaries and wildlife, and 13,000 hours of animation. There are 3m hours of audio in 70+ languages, mostly from talk radio, radio news and podcasts, Content Aimbassy says.
Diverse and representative data
“We understand buyer needs and source the content to meet their technical standards,” Knaebel explains. “It is important to have a diverse and representative dataset. Hence, we continuously look for new content and content types to add to our library from around the world.”
The company has worked in an advisory capacity on AI in media and licensing and according to Knaebel, “We have quietly aggregated an impressive and independent portfolio of international rights-cleared content.
“What began as repeated conversations with AI developers has now matured into a dedicated service. Curated and diverse data sets are needed to shape AI systems.
“We ensure full transparency for the content owner as well as fully documented provenance of the content.
“The AI algorithms, models and systems will be based not only on perfect code and how they compute, but on the diversity, legality, and integrity of their training data. This [part of the ecosystem] is surprisingly under-structured.”
AI training represents a potential new revenue stream for content rights holders.
The Media Leader recently reported that AI tech company Veritone is licensing refined video data for up to $1,000 per hour to AI application developers and AI models, meeting their need for unstructured data.
TV rights owners promised new revenue stream by licensing content for AI training
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