NVIDIA is being sued by three authors due to alleged copyright infringement of books used to train its NeMo AI platform.
The chip company is known for powering AI models, including NeMo, ChatGPT and more.
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NVIDIA NeMo Uses Copyrighted Materials
Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian and Stewart O'Nan filed a lawsuit against the chipmaker company, accusing NVIDIA of using their books without permission to train NeMo to recreate ordinary written language.
Books such as "Ghost Walk" by Keene, "Like a Love Story" by Nazemian, and "Last Night at the Lobster" by O'Nan were some of the materials covered by the lawsuit.
According to the suit, the books were part of 196,640 materials that were used as training materials. The proposed class action cited that NVIDIA's takedown reflects the admission of infringing materials.
The authors are now seeking unspecified damages for them and other people in the U.S. whose works were infringed by the company. The suit also identified that the dataset was used to train NeMo for three years.
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AI Companies Prone to Copyright Infringement Suits
Aside from NVIDIA, several AI companies are also facing copyright infringement lawsuits. OpenAI, the biggest AI company right now, has been under several lawsuits from authors and publishers alike.
OpenAI has not yet resolved its dispute with The New York Times. Popular fiction authors like "Game of Thrones" author George R.R. Martin also have a pending suit with the AI company.
Meanwhile, some news organizations and social media platforms are striking deals with AI companies to legally provide training content for the AI models.
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