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NVIDIA allegedly downloaded 80 years worth of content every day to train its AI.

The company reportedly tried to evade protections put in place by YouTube to download 80 years of content every day.4 Media

However, 404 Media reports that NVIDIA employees were downloading 80 years worth of video a day. The excuse that this is just like a human learning, sort of falls flat on its face when the learning is more than a person could accomplish in a lifetime. YouTube has reiterated its stance that improperly scrapping data from its site is a violation of its terms of use. Netflix also told 404 Media it had no deal with NVIDIA that allowed it to scrap its content for training purposes.

And it seems as if NVIDIA knew that what it was doing was wrong. The company reportedly set up virtual machines to evade detection while downloading videos from YouTube.

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