This is not the first case of AI training leading to legal action. Last year, OpenAI was sued by a group of authors, including Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon, for using their works to train ChatGPT without permission. Comedienne and author Sarah Silverman, along with authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey, also sued OpenAI for copyright infringement, claiming that ChatGPT used the contents of their books without their consent.
Key takeaways:
- Nvidia is facing a lawsuit from three authors—Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian, and Stewart O'Nan—who allege that their copyrighted books were used without permission to train its NeMo AI platform.
- The authors claim that their works were included in a dataset of around 196,640 books used to train NeMo, which was taken down in October due to copyright infringement issues.
- The authors are seeking unspecified damages on behalf of individuals in the United States whose copyrighted works contributed to the training of NeMo's large language models over the past three years.
- This follows similar lawsuits against OpenAI last year, where authors including Sarah Silverman and Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon accused the company of using their works without permission to train the ChatGPT AI.