Videos of LeCun's 2015 NYU deep learning course lectures were taken down for legal reasons, while the slides remain available.
Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
What would count as true or false
Judge as of 28 July 2016. TRUE: the lecture videos of LeCun's 2015 NYU deep learning course were removed, the removal was for legal reasons (for example, rights or accessibility compliance), and the slides were still publicly available on that date. MOSTLY TRUE: the videos were removed and the slides were available, but the documented reason is somewhat different, or the course year is slightly off. MIXED: only one of the two parts (videos removed, slides available) holds. MOSTLY FALSE: the videos were removed for a reason that was clearly not legal, and the slides were also unavailable, or the course details are substantially wrong. FALSE: archived pages show the videos still publicly available on that date.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (5)
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E1 Yann LeCun's Home Page Yann LeCun (personal site, yann.lecun.com) · 25 October 2026 Own record
“Deep Learning course at NYU: Complete course on Deep Learning, with all the material available on line including lectures and practicums, videos, slide decks, homeworks, Jupyter notebooks, and transcripts in several languages.”
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E2 Courses NYU Computer Science (LeCun's course page, cs.nyu.edu/~yann) · 1 January 2005 Own record
“G22.2565-001: Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition. Graduate course.”
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E3 Yann LeCun's Home Page Yann LeCun (personal home page) Own record
“Deep Learning course at NYU: Complete course on Deep Learning, with all the material available on line including lectures and practicums, videos, slide decks, homeworks, Jupyter notebooks, and transcripts in several languages.”
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E4 DeepLearningResources/README.md at master · krrish94/DeepLearningResources GitHub (repository by user krrish94) · 4 June 2016
“06. [NYU: Deep Learning (Yann LeCun)] (http://cilvr.cs.nyu.edu/doku.php?id=deeplearning:slides:start)”
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E5 Yann LeCun’s Deep Learning Course Free From NYU I Programmer · 8 December 2020
“On the course's main website one can find the whole course material in video, text and pdf format,while the recorded lectures can be collectively found as a playlist on YouTube.”
Reasoning
E4 is a third-party list dated June 2016 that links to a slides page for LeCun's NYU deep learning course. It does not mention videos, whether they were taken down, or why. E1, E3 and E5 describe a later version of the course with videos online, which says nothing about whether the 2015 lecture videos had been taken down by July 2016 or for what reason. No evidence confirms or contradicts that the videos were removed for legal reasons, so the claim cannot be resolved.
Cite this claim
Yann LeCun, “Videos of LeCun's 2015 NYU deep learning course lectures were taken down for legal reasons, while the slides remain available.” (said 28 July 2016). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_a05513622e9c, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_a05513622e9c
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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