Nvidia Sued By Authors Over AI Use Of Copyrighted Works

Nvidia, whose chips power artificial intelligence, is facing a lawsuit from three authors who claim that the company used their copyrighted books without permission to train its NeMo AI platform, Jonathan Stempel reported for Reuters.

Authors Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian, and Stewart O'Nan allege that their works were part of a dataset of approximately 196,640 books used to train NeMo in simulating ordinary written language. I Photo: Brian Keene Facebook

Authors Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian, and Stewart O'Nan allege that their works were part of a dataset of approximately 196,640 books used to train NeMo in simulating ordinary written language.

The dataset was taken down in October "due to reported copyright infringement."

This lawsuit adds Nvidia to a growing body of litigation involving writers, including the New York Times, over generative AI, which generates new content based on inputs like text, images, and sounds.

The case is Nazemian et al v Nvidia Corp, US District Court, Northern District of California, No. 24-01454.

In a proposed class action filed on Friday night in San Francisco federal court, the authors claim that Nvidia's takedown of the dataset indicates its acknowledgment of training NeMo on the dataset, thereby infringing their copyrights.

They are seeking unspecified damages for individuals in the US whose copyrighted works contributed to the training of NeMo's large language models over the last three years.

The works covered by the lawsuit include Keene's 2008 novel "Ghost Walk," Nazemian's 2019 novel "Like a Love Story," and O'Nan's 2007 novella "Last Night at the Lobster."

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