>> A former Nvidia employee, whom 404 Media granted anonymity to speak about internal Nvidia processes, said that employees were asked to scrape videos from Net

>> A former Nvidia employee, whom 404 Media granted anonymity to speak about internal Nvidia processes, said that employees were asked to scrape videos from Netflix, YouTube, and other sources Most videos on Youtube are wide open and fair game. The US Supreme Court categorizes the site as "gate up" with no protection of content requiring logins or anything of that nature - if you request the content from the server, the server gives it to you. YouTube has gatekeeping mechanisms in play, allowing sales of content requiring login. Those are bound by ToS. NetFlix is gate down. That means use of the content is subject to jursidictional relevance of terms of service - in various parts of the world, this means different things, but assuming it's in the US, that means violations of the ToS can result in Netflix shutting down an account - anything beyond that would require a crime of some sort to be committed. Training an AI model would seem to be protected fair use. Having copies of streams, and other technicalities are supercilious garbage gotcha laws. Let's disregard these for the moment. They serve to allow the exploitation of individuals. NVidia would be guilty of training an AI system on videos which have been paid for, ostensibly through Netflix's system of revenue distribution based on streams and so forth. I don't see a moral or ethical problem with this. I see a regulatory and legal problem, wherein technology has far outstripped the relevance of laws that are founded in quill and parchment era principles, barely updated to handle publishing of physical media, and are completely unequipped to handle digital data protections and reasonable individual rights. There's nothing bad faith about what NVidia is doing. There are vested interests in demonizing AI, because it threatens a bunch of concentrated wealth that only exists because it can exploit artists at scale, and sell to consumers at grossly overvalued prices. We need a complete overhaul of copyright and intellectual property laws, and the MAFIAA needs to be shut out of the conversation. No more gotchas, no more empowering crappy people to exploit consumers and artists to nobodies benefit but their own, no more of this notion that people don't own the data or devices they pay for. Lots of really shady, unethical games are played to maintain the current copyright regime, and it's not rational or good for anyone. Laws should serve the society in the context of the people living there. They shouldn't be tools of exploitation wielded by the wealthy.