Nvidia Invaded By Lawsuits By Authors Who Claim The Use Of Copyright Books Without Permit

Abdi Nazemian, one of the writers who has sued Nvidia (photo: x @Abdaddy)

JAKARTA - Three writers, Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian, and Stewart O'Nan, have sued Nvidia, whose chips power artificial intelligence, on charges of using their copyrighted books without permission to train their artificial intelligence platform, NeMo.

The plaintiffs said their works were part of a dataset of about 196,640 books that helped train NeMo to simulate common written language, before being removed in October "for reported copyright infringement."

In a class-action lawsuit filed on Friday evening, March 8, at a San Francisco federal court, the authors said the removal measures reflected Nvidia who "recognized" had coached NeMo by using the dataset, and thus violated their copyright.

The plaintiffs demanded undetermined compensation for people in the United States whose works have helped train the big language model NeMo in the last three years.

Among the works covered by the lawsuit are the 2008 novel Brian Keene "Ghost Walk," 2019 novel Abdi Nazemian "Like a Love Story," and 2007 novella Stewart O'Nan "Last Night at the Lobster."

Nvidia declined to comment on Sunday, March 10. The authors' lawyers did not immediately respond to requests for additional comments on Sunday.

The lawsuit dragged Nvidia into a series of lawsuits by the authors, as well as the New York Times, over its generative artificial intelligence, which creates new content based on input such as text, images, and sound. Nvidia promotes NeMo as a fast and affordable way to adopt generative artificial intelligence.

Other companies that have been dragged into lawsuits related to this technology include OpenAI, which created the ChatGPT artificial intelligence platform, and its partner Microsoft. The increase in the success of artificial intelligence has made Nvidia a favorite of investors. The share price of Santa Clara-based chip company Clara, California, has increased nearly 600% since late 2022, providing Nvidia with a market value of nearly US$2.2 trillion (34.5 quadrillion).