Source: Bloomberg Law

Source: Bloomberg Law. A new class action lawsuit has been filed against Nvidia, accusing the technology giant of indiscriminately scraping content from YouTube to train its artificial intelligence models. The plaintiffs, a group of YouTube content creators, allege that Nvidia used automated software to download and process millions of videos without permission, violating copyright laws and the platform's terms of service. This legal action underscores the growing tension between generative AI developers, who require massive datasets to improve their models, and the rights holders of the creative works used to build those datasets.

The complaint argues that Nvidia’s actions constitute unjust enrichment, as the company has profited significantly from AI products built upon the unpaid labor and intellectual property of video creators. The lawsuit seeks damages and an injunction to stop the alleged unauthorized use of the content. This case adds to the mounting litigation facing major tech companies, forcing courts to examine whether scraping publicly available data for AI training falls under "fair use" or constitutes a massive infringement of intellectual property rights. The outcome could set a critical precedent for how video content is licensed in the AI era.