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NVIDIA in the Crosshairs: Serious Accusations of Copyright Infringement in AI Training
AI Giant Under Fire: Three Authors Sue Over Unauthorized Use of Their Works for Training Purposes.
The American technology firm NVIDIA is facing a lawsuit that was filed on Friday in San Francisco. The three authors Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian, and Stewart O'Nan accuse the AI giant of having illegally used their works for training artificial intelligence. This involves a dataset of 196,640 books that NVIDIA is alleged to have used for training their AI framework NeMo. The authors claim that their works contributed to NeMo being able to simulate human-like language. When NeMo was taken offline in October of this year due to reported copyright infringements, the authors interpreted this as an admission of guilt by the AI giant.
According to the class-action lawsuit, the authors seek unspecified damages for all those in the USA whose works were used in the training of NeMo over the past three years. The affected works include, among others, Keene's 2008 novel "Ghost Walk," Nazemian's 2019 novel "Like a Love Story," and O’Nan's 2007 novella "Last Night at the Lobster."
The lawsuit against NVIDIA is not the first of its kind. Tech giants Meta, OpenAI, and Microsoft are already faced with similar accusations. In each case, the proceedings involve possible copyright infringements through the use of works for the training of AI models. Even the prestigious "New York Times" filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft in December, as they allegedly used knowledge from their articles to train ChatGPT and thereby build a business.
The NVIDIA stock recorded a price loss of 2.00 percent on the NASDAQ due to the lawsuit and was traded at 857.74 US dollars. The US tech giant is considered one of the biggest beneficiaries of the AI trend and relies on multiple pillars in this area. In addition to graphics processors, the company also invests in other companies that are active in artificial intelligence. Moreover, NVIDIA has developed its own framework called NeMo, which can be used to create, adjust, and deploy generative AI models. However, the lawsuit against the company highlights the legal challenges that firms face wanting to utilize AI technologies.
