Nvidia is sued by writers for AI training – 03/10/2024 – Tech

Nvidia, whose chips power artificial intelligence models, was sued by three authors who claimed their copyrighted books were used without permission to train the NeMo AI platform.

Authors Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian and Stewart O’Nan said their work was part of a dataset of 196,640 books that helped train NeMo to simulate common written language, before being taken offline in October “due to report of copyright infringement.”

In a class action lawsuit filed Friday night in San Francisco federal court, plaintiffs said the removal reflects the fact that Nvidia has “admitted” that it trained NeMo on the dataset and therefore violated its copyright. .

They are seeking unspecified damages for people in the United States whose copyrighted works helped train NeMo’s so-called great language models over the past three years.

Nvidia did not comment on the case on Sunday and lawyers for the plaintiffs did not respond to requests for additional comment.

The lawsuit lands Nvidia in yet another litigation filed by writers, as well as the New York Times, over generative AI, which creates new content based on inputs like text, images and sounds.

For Nvidia, NeMo is a fast and affordable way to adopt generative AI.

The rise of AI has made Nvidia an investor favorite.

The Santa Clara, California-based chipmaker’s share price has risen almost 600% since the end of 2022, giving Nvidia a market value of almost US$2.2 trillion (almost R$11 billion).