Nvidia has been sued for training artificial intelligence on copyrighted works

Weeks after Taking advantage of the generative AI boom To greater and greater levels, Nvidia is being sued by authors over their production training NEMO AI platform. Authors Brian Kane, Abdi Nazemian, and Stuart Onan They filed a proposed class action lawsuit In federal district court in California on Friday. They claim that their work was part of a dataset of nearly 197,000 books that helped train NeMo to generate regular written language.

Part of the body of work that NeMo is trained on includes a dataset of books from Bibliotik, which is called “Shadow Library” Which hosts and distributes unlicensed copyrighted material. That was the data set Available until October 2023, When it was listed as no longer existing and “no longer accessible due to reported copyright infringement”.

Data set included At least once Each author's published work, according to the lawsuit – Keene's Ghost walkNazemian Like a love storyAnd Onan Last night at the lobster.

The authors claim that the removal is essentially a concession by Nvidia that it trained its NeMo models on the dataset, thus violating its copyright. They are seeking unspecified damages for people in the United States whose copyrighted works were used to train large Nemo language models within the United States. The last three years.

Nvidia stock fell nearly 2% in Monday morning trading afterward To close down 5.6% on Friday. Even with those losses, shares are up roughly 273% over the past 12 months, and the company remains flat. It is valued much higher than Amazon and Google parent Alphabet.

The tech giant joins the ranks of several other AI-focused companies that have been sued for copying licensed material without permission.

OpenAI, AL Led by Sam Altman And Supported by Microsoft Startup is behind ChatGPTA lawsuit has been filed by many Authors And News outletsincluded New York times. A lawsuit has been filed against fellow chatbot maker Anthropic World music groupwhile Visual artists sued Mid-flight and stability AI.