Does NVIDIA VSR record any data?

[thesilverderp]

I've been using NVIDIA's new VSR software and I like it so far, however I am concerned. Since it is AI upscaling, I was wondering if NVIDIA is collecting data on what I watch in order to improve their software in the future. Does anybody know if they explicitly say if they do or don't do that? Or is it just infeasible for them to do that in the first place since VSR isn't (maybe) connected to the internet? Sorry, I am not very knowledgeable on AI or NVIDIAs practices. Thanks for the help!

[MrSimplicity]

Ultimately no, all it's doing is analyzing the pixels of a video to AI upscale. They aren't recording what your watching. They also wouldn't have released the software without a good bit of videos for the AI to learn off of. Nvidia, from what I've seen has never been in the business of collecting any real data besides system specs to best optimize games via their GeForce experience games library/launcher and also for crash data.

[Franck]

17 minutes ago, MrSimplicity said:

They aren't recording what your watching.

It depend what you consider "recording".

By the base definition yes it is recording as it stores the data into the VRAM and in the RAM too as you can see spike back and forth.

If he actually mean by recording that it store it on a long term storage device that is no. For having tested it a lot over the weekend (as a programmer), that throughput of data would have shown at least 250+mbps on the storage if it was saving anything to it.

 

Nice discovery while testing it :

- Their mention of working only on Chrome and Edge (both being Chromium) is bullshit. It does work on Brave and CEF (Chromium browser) so it is most likely all Chromium browsers

- Making a simple app that take over all file association for video on your computer and make them open in a basic HTML page with a video tag pointing to your local file does also upscale the video. So instead of running then in VLC or Windows Media Player, make them open in browser and it does upscale them. Although I am unsure on how it works exactly as some video do NOT upscale at all. I am guessing it need some minimum amount of pixel or bitrate to work.

[porina]

As speculation, they might gather telemetry on how it is used e.g. input/output resolutions and other technical parameters. If they did this at all, it'll be covered under the existing privacy policy.

 

28 minutes ago, Franck said:

- Their mention of working only on Chrome and Edge (both being Chromium) is bullshit. It does work on Brave and CEF (Chromium browser) so it is most likely all Chromium browsers

Might be a case of they only officially support those browsers. If it works on others, great, but it is unofficial.

[thesilverderp]

Got it, thanks friends!