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Nvidia has joined OpenAI in facing lawsuits for allegedly training AI on copyrighted work

Mar 11, 2024 - qz.com
Nvidia is facing a lawsuit filed by authors Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian, and Stewart O’Nan who allege that their works were used in a dataset of nearly 197,000 books to train Nvidia's NeMo AI platform. The dataset, which was part of a “shadow library” called Bibliotik that distributed unlicensed copyrighted material, included at least one published work from each author. The authors argue that Nvidia's use of this dataset infringes on their copyrights and are seeking unspecified damages for U.S. copyright holders whose works have been used to train NeMo in the past three years.

The lawsuit has impacted Nvidia's stock, which dropped almost 2% in Monday morning trading after closing down 5.6% on Friday. Despite these losses, the company's shares have increased by almost 273% over the past 12 months. Nvidia joins other AI-focused companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Midjourney, and Stability AI, which have also been sued for allegedly using licensed material without permission.

Key takeaways:

  • Nvidia is being sued by authors Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian, and Stewart O’Nan for allegedly using their works to train its NeMo AI platform.
  • The authors allege that their works were part of a dataset of nearly 197,000 books that helped train NeMo to generate ordinary written language.
  • The dataset included at least one published work from each author and was available until October 2023, when it was listed as defunct due to reported copyright infringement.
  • The authors are seeking unspecified damages for people in the U.S. whose copyrighted works have been used to train Nemo’s large language models within the past three years.
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