RTHK's podcast on the latest tech news
2024-08-13
AI data scraping war, Impact of Google search US ruling
In the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence, companies are rushing to collect data from the internet to train their AI models.
Recently, Nvidia, a leading AI chip maker, was accused of scraping videos from websites such as YouTube and Netflix without permission to improve its own programmes.
The practice is also known as data scraping, which is the automated process of extracting large amounts of information from websites.
Why is this practice so controversial when it is commonplace for many companies? Who should decide how the data is used? Listen to AI consultant Raj’s take on the issue.
You'll also hear about the likely impact of a US judge's ruling that Google has an illegal monopoly in the search engine market.