Santa Ana, California-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 faced with a new concern: that YouTube’s moves in artificial intelligence will eat into his business.

“The fear is there, and I’m still building the channels, but I am preparing, just in case my channels become irrelevant,” Chang, 33, said. “I don’t know if I’m gonna be building YouTube channels forever.”

YouTube’s parent company, Google, is using a subset of the platform’s videos to train AI applications, including its text-to-video tool Veo. That includes videos made by us

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