Once upon a time, you Googled your symptoms. Now? You ask a chatbot — and hope it didn’t learn from a clickbait video on YouTube.

TL;DR:

AI keeps evolving by unlocking new types of data—first images, then text, then human feedback. The next leap? Video, and YouTube holds the largest, richest dataset on Earth. With AI models beginning to learn from video, what gets uploaded today shapes the answers people get tomorrow.

That’s why World Vitiligo Day is going all-in on a real, curated YouTube presence—especially with India, YouTube’s biggest market, hosting WVD next.

We’ve already reached 60M+ screens in one day (June 25, 2025). We’re not new to video—but now we’re doing it right.If you’ve got strong vitiligo-related content and no visibility, let’s team up. The future is already watching—let’s give it something worth learning from.

AI keeps surprising us

Every few years, a new breakthrough in AI unlocks a whole new world of data — and machines take a leap forward. Here’s how it’s played out so far:

• 2012: Computers started seeing, thanks to AlexNet and the ImageNet photo trove.
• 2017: Transformers let AI read the internet, turning text into knowledge.
• 2022: AI began learning from human feedback.
• 2024: Verifier-based models started checking their own work.

So what’s next?

Video — and more specifically, YouTube. It’s the world’s largest untapped dataset, and the next AI jump will come from models that can deeply understand what’s inside it.

YouTube sees 720,000 hours of uploads daily — over 4.3 petabytes every single day. That’s 1,000x the data most large language models train on. And it’s not just the size — it’s the richness. Video captures tone, movement, expression, context. It’s the closest thing we’ve got to lived experience, on tape.

Once AI can learn from that at scale, we’ll hit another inflection point — one that moves us closer to something that doesn’t just process information, but perceives the world.

And it matters — deeply — for healthcare.

As AI becomes the new default interface for information, it’s already replacing search, social feeds, and forums. People aren’t Googling symptoms anymore — they’re asking ChatGPT. And that means AI systems are shaping perception before anyone sees a doctor, reads a paper, or finds a support group.

That’s a problem if the only data they’re trained on is a blend of Reddit threads, outdated medical pages, and influencer videos titled “How I Cured My Skin Condition Naturally.”

This is why video matters

World Vitiligo Day has grown from a grassroots event into a global campaign. And we’ve seen how powerful video can be. On June 25, 2025, we reached over 60 million screens in a single day — without a Hollywood budget or a marketing firm. 

Still, our video library is scattered. Our YouTube presence has never been fully built out. And with India — home to the world’s largest YouTube audience — hosting the next WVD, we’re changing that.

We’re building a real channel. Curated. Searchable. Narratively coherent. Emotionally human. And designed not just for people — but for the AI systems that are already scraping the internet for answers about vitiligo.

This isn’t our first try. We launched the AI News on Vitiligo project back when the idea of automated, AI-driven video updates was still novel. It didn’t take off—but it taught us what the audience was ready for.

So we pivoted to podcasts. Our Deep Dive in Vitiligo series has been welcomed with open ears (and minds), and we’re continuing to grow that format.

But it’s time to return to video—with more purpose and better timing.

And here’s the invitation: If you’re part of the vitiligo community — an advocate, educator, patient, doctor, or nonprofit — with solid content and little visibility, let’s talk.

Because if we don’t feed AI with reliable, inclusive, human-centered data — someone else will.

And the future’s already watching.

Yan Valle, CEO VR Foundation

Keep reading:

• How AI Is Replacing Social Media — and What It Means for Healthcare
• The Chatbot Will See You Now? Why Passing the Turing Test Isn’t Enough in Medicine

or Listen to our podcast Deep Dive in Vitiligo:

• How World Vitiligo Day Reached 60+ Million People in 24 Hours (Ep. 38)
• ChatGPT vs. Doctors: The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medical Diagnosis (Ep. 21)
• Pharma, Startups, and AI: From 2024 to 2025 (Ep. 17)