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

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. 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."