Deep Six

Deep six meaning: ‘pirate slang: to get rid of something permanently, usually by throwing it into the ocean, whether it was a body, a chest of gold, or evidence of wrongdoing’

Main revolving theme: crime vs crime (when is a crime immoral just because its illegal?) – in this case, digital piracy vs human exploitation/AI training
General narrative summary/detailed brainstorm: a greedy multi-billion-dollar healthcare mega corporation named Health AI has been exploiting and brainwashing employees to undergo extremely unethical and harmful psychological experiments to gather information to train their new AI model to create various types of medicines/drugs to treat patients for major health procedures like surgeries which then these drugs are distributed to almost every hospital and healthcare centre in the country. The main character of the film discovers this accidentally by illegally downloading/torrenting e-books as well as several folders of unreleased documents that contain information about Health AI’s unethical and harmful human exploitation practices, seeded by multiple anonymous ex-employees of the company, with the sole intent of digital archival (they upload the files to various online archival non-profits such as Internet Archive) and preservation of the past. The CEO/lead representative of Health AI, Albert Ibarra, finds out that someone (the main character) is downloading and gaining access to these documents as he is informed by a cyber-security specialist at Health AI who detects IP traffic downloading the documents. The main character takes the documents to court but is told that more evidence as well as proof of how the documents were obtained is needed, so throughout the entire narrative they are in constant search for more of these documents that could help the court case while simultaneously, Health AI is trying to find out who is downloading the documents in order to try stop them. The main plot revolves around who is in the more morally correct situation: the person committing copyright infringement by downloading unreleased corporate documents as well as other tools to help in the search, or the mega corporation that is exploiting real life human beings for monetary benefit and to train an AI model?