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404media: Leaked Documents Show Nvidia Scraping ‘A Human Lifetime’ of Videos Per Day to Train AI (www.404media.co)

submitted 4 months ago by self@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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as I was reading through this one, the quotes I wanted to pull kept growing in size until it was just the whole article, so fuck it, this one’s pretty damning

here’s a thin sample of what you can expect, but it gets much worse from here:

Internal conversations at Nvidia viewed by 404 Media show when employees working on the project raised questions about potential legal issues surrounding the use of datasets compiled by academics for research purposes and YouTube videos, managers told them they had clearance to use that content from the highest levels of the company.

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 to train an AI model for Nvidia’s Omniverse 3D world generator, self-driving car systems, and “digital human” products. The project, internally named Cosmos (but different from the company’s existing Cosmos deep learning product), has not yet been released to the public.

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[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"Digital Human" as a product class is straight-up dystopian, or at least would be if it made any kind of sense from a technical or economic perspective.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 2 points 4 months ago

From my point of view, when digitial implants become a real thing (eyes, ears, or god forbid even neuralink-like devices), their users are the digital humans. They will absolutely lose control over their own privacy and also of those surrounding them, and I'm quite sure I don't want walking surveillance devices near me. Normal humans with their phones is a different thing obviously, they can leave their phones somewhere if they want.