On the path toward "content automation," some companies are crossing legal and ethical boundaries. According to a deep investigation reported by The Verge, citing 404 Media, a platform called WebinarTV is accused of scraping public Zoom meeting links and converting private or business calls into "AI podcasts" on its platform without participants' consent.

The operation model of WebinarTV is extremely simple and brutal: it uses automated tools to search for unencrypted or publicly shared Zoom meeting links in big data, then uses AI technology to transcribe, edit, and polish the audio.

The platform turns others' communications into its own traffic assets without paying any copyright fees or even notifying the parties involved. Many users, when sharing Zoom links, did not realize that these contents could be crawled by search engines and used as "raw materials" by such platforms, leading to the risk of large-scale exposure of business secrets or personal privacy.