Nvidia is being sued for copyright infringement over the books it used to train its NeMo AI platform without seeking permission from the authors.
Brian Keen, Abdi Nazemian and Stewart O’Nan have all said their books were among the 196,640 books the company used in training NeMo before the intelligence was taken down in October last year as a result of copyright rules it violated.
In a court hearing in San Francisco Federal Court on Friday night, the three authors said Nvidia taking down the AI shows the the company “admitted” training NeMo on the dataset, as a result violating copyright rules.
The authors want damages to be paid to people whose works helped train NeMo’s language models for the past 3 years.
Keene’s 2008 novel, ”Ghost Walk” Nazemian’ 2019 novel “Like a Love Story” and O’Nan’s 2007 novella “Last Night at the Lobster” are the works stated to be used by Nvidia in the lawsuit
The lawsuit is not the first one Nvidia is facing as it is facing the one from New York Times on generative AI.
NeMo is being touted by Nvidia as a quick and less expensive way to adopt generative AI
Other technology companies that have been sued over copyright infringements include Open AI and its partner, Microsoft.
The rise of AI has turned Nvidia to a popular investor in the field. The California-based chipmaker’s has gotten over 500% increment in its stock price since 2022 thereby giving the company a market value of over $2 trillion.
The case goes thus;
Nazemian et al v Nvidia Corp, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, No. 24-01454.
