On March 10, three American writers filed a lawsuit against the San Francisco Federal CourtChip makersNvidia has filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that the company used their copyrighted works without authorization to train its artificial intelligence (AI) system NeMo.
According to the lawsuit filing, authors Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian and Stewart O'Nan claim that their works were part of a dataset of nearly 200,000 books that were used to train NeMo to simulate ordinary written language. However, these copyrighted works were later removed from the dataset "due to allegations of copyright infringement".
The writers say that Nvidia has "admitted" to copyright infringement by using their work to train AI systems. They are seeking an unspecified amount of compensation for NeMo's use of their work over the past three years.
The works involved in the lawsuit include Keane's novel "Ghost Walk", Nazemian's novel "Like a Love Story" and O'Nan's novella "The Last Night of the Lobster".
Nvidia declined to comment on the lawsuit on Sunday. Lawyers for the writers did not respond to requests for comment.
The case draws Nvidia into a growing number of lawsuits by writers and publishers against generative AI systems, which can create new content based on inputs such as text, images and sound.
Nvidia touts NeMo as a fast and affordable way to generate AI. Companies like Ope have been sued for using related technologies such as ChatGPT, created by nAI and its partner Microsoft (MSFT.O).
In recent years, withAI ChipsDue to strong demand, Nvidia's stock price has soared nearly six times since the end of 2022, with a market value of nearly $2.2 trillion, making it one of investors' most favored technology companies.