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Nvidia Sued for Scraping YouTube After 404 Media Investigation

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· Aug 16, 2024 at 6:19 PM

David Millette, a YouTube creator, filed a class action lawsuit against Nvidia citing “unjust enrichment and unfair competition” for how the company built its training data for the “Cosmos” project video model.

Nvidia Sued for Scraping YouTube After 404 Media Investigation
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A YouTube creator filed a class action lawsuit against Nvidia on Wednesday, claiming that Nvidia profited significantly from his and others’ videos, violated California’s Unfair Competition Law, and unjustly enriched the company at his and other creators’ expense, after a recent 404 Media investigation revealed Nvidia scraped YouTube and other platforms en masse to build its own AI systems. 

YouTuber David Millette claims that Nvidia has enriched itself unjustly and broken federal labor laws in building a new video model based on content scraped from YouTube without his or other creators’ permission.

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