NVIDIA’s AI team reportedly scraped YouTube, Netflix videos without permission

In the latest example of a troubling industry pattern, NVIDIA appears to have scraped troves of copyrighted content for AI training. On Monday, 404 Media’s Samantha Cole reported that the $2.4 trillion company asked workers to download videos from YouTube, Netflix and other datasets to develop commercial AI projects. The graphics card maker is among the tech companies appearing to have adopted a “move fast and break things” ethos as they race to establish dominance in this feverish, too-often-shameful AI gold rush. The training was reportedly to develop models for products like its Omniverse 3D world generator, self-driving car systems and “digital human” efforts. NVIDIA defended its practice in an email to Engadget. A company spokesperson said its research is “in full compliance with the letter and the spirit of copyright law” while claiming IP laws protect specific expressions “but not facts, ideas, data, or information.” The company equated the practice to a person’s right to “learn facts, ideas, data, or information from another source and use it to make their own expression.” Human, computer… what’s the difference? YouTube doesn’t appear to agree. Spokesperson Jack Malon pointed us to a Bloomberg story from April, quoting CEO Neal Mohan saying using YouTube to train AI models would be a “clear violation” of its terms. “Our previous comment still stands,” the YouTube policy communications manager wrote to Engadget. That quote from Mohan in April was in response to... Continue reading at 'Engadget'

[ Engadget | 2024-08-05 20:49:43 UTC ]

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Jeremy Corbyn vows to protect libraries from forces of doom.

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[ Literrary Hub | 2019-11-27 16:43:19 UTC ]
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One of the largest book publishers in the world announces new publisher.

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[ Literrary Hub | 2019-11-19 15:22:43 UTC ]
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