Three authors are throwing a wrench into the world of artificial intelligence (AI) with a lawsuit against chipmaker Nvidia. The fight centers around Nvidia’s AI platform, NeMo, which the authors claim used their copyrighted books for training without permission.
We can expect similar lawsuits to pop up due to the growing popularity of AI
Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian, and Stewart O’Nan allege their works were included in a dataset of nearly 200,000 books used to train NeMo to mimic natural language writing. While Nvidia removed the dataset in October 2023 due to copyright infringement claims, the authors argue this takedown is an admission of guilt.
Filed in a San Francisco federal court, the proposed class-action lawsuit seeks unspecified damages for US authors whose copyrighted works potentially helped train NeMo’s large language models in the past three years.
The lawsuit mentions specific titles like Keene’s “Ghost Walk” (2008), Nazemian’s “Like a Love Story” (2019), and O’Nan’s “Last Night at the Lobster” (2007). As of Sunday, Nvidia declined to comment, and the authors’ lawyers haven’t responded to requests for further information.
This lawsuit adds Nvidia to a growing list of companies facing legal challenges from writers and media giants like the New York Times. The issue revolves around generative AI, a technology capable of creating new content based on existing text, images, and sounds.
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