NVIDIA exposed for crawling YouTube, Netflix platform videos without permission to train AI

NVIDIA collects video footage from YouTube and other sources to train AI, internal conversations show that employees involved in the project have questioned the legalities of such unauthorized use, but project managers say they have permission from the highest levels of the company and are compliant with copyright laws, an NVIDIA employee revealed that the company requires the collection of video from YouTube, Netflix, and other sources to be used for the Omniverse 3D generator, autonomous driving systems, and "digital human" products. Omniverse 3D generators, autonomous driving systems, and "digital human" products, IT House cites the report as saying that the project was internally called Cosmos and that NVIDIA used virtual machines with rotating IP addresses to download content in order to avoid YouTube detection.

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