Leaked Documents Show Nvidia Scraping ‘A Human Lifetime’ of Videos Per Day to Train AI.

  • 2024-08-19 08:00:00
  • 404 Media

According to a document obtained by the media outlet responsible for today's reference article, the famous US tech company Nvidia is using vast amounts of data extracted from YouTube videos to train its artificial intelligence services. The company, universally famous thanks to its graphics processors, has defended itself against 404 Media's claims, claiming that it uses the videos in question according to 'the letter and spirit of copyright law'.

Within the company, when confronted with questions about the ethics of the practice posed by employees themselves, executives have always put any doubts to rest by explaining that they had received permission to use the content in question from the highest levels of the company.

A former Nvidia employee interviewed by 404 Media added that the billions of videos mentioned above were also being scraped from Netflix, and that the ultimate goal was to train the company's AI needed to create the 'Omniverse 3D world generator'.