AI chip giant Nvidia is facing a lawsuit filed by three authors alleging unauthorized use of their copyrighted works to train its NeMo AI platform.
Nvidia Faces Lawsuit Against 3 Authors
According to Reuters, Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian, and Stewart O'Nan said that Nvidia incorporated their copyrighted books into a dataset of some 196,640 books to train NeMo to simulate ordinary written language before being taken down last October due to "reported copyright infringement."
In the lawsuit filed in San Francisco federal court on Friday, the authors argued that the removal implies Nvidia's acknowledgment of the dataset used in training NeMo, thus infringing their copyrights.
Copyrighted Works of the Authors
The authors sought unspecified damages for individuals in the United States whose copyrighted works contributed to training NeMo's large language models in the past three years.
The lawsuit cited several copyrighted works, including Keene's "Ghost Walk," Nazemian's "Like a Love Story," and O'Nan's "Last Night at the Lobster."
This legal proceeding implicates Nvidia in an expanding roster of writers entangled in lawsuits concerning generative AI, which produces new content based on inputs such as images and text. Nvidia has yet to comment on the matter.
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