Leaked internal comms reveal Nvidia scraping lifetime worth of YouTube videos daily to train video AI model, Jensen happy with the progress

[Redaktion]

Leaked internal Nvidia Slack communications obtained by 404 Media revealed that the company's staff working on the Cosmos video foundation model has so far compiled 38.5 million hours of video from various sources, primarily YouTube. Employees highlighted possible copyright concerns, but the execs higher up apparently gave an "umbrella approval" to go ahead and scrape content.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Leaked-internal-comms-reveal-Nvidia-scraping-lifetime-worth-of-YouTube-videos-daily-to-train-video-AI-model-Jensen-happy-with-the-progress.871835.0.html

[Rossberg]

When contacted by 404 Media, both YouTube and Netflix said that scraping content on their platforms to train AI models are a clear violation of their terms of service.

Oh the irony...in March google were fined €250m for scraping content from French news websites, what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

Although Nvidia has academic researchers, the output will eventually make its way to a commercial product.
Given that transparency, accountability, fairness, integrity, honesty, and objectivity underpin academic research, I doubt very much Nvidia has any researchers that could be classified as "academic"