As the biggest beneficiary of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, Nvidia's chip demand is booming and in short supply. But the company seems to have been in trouble recently: it has been sued by three authors, claiming that the company used their copyrighted books without permission to train its NeMo artificial intelligence platform.
Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian, and Stewart O'Nan, the three authors, stated that their work was part of a dataset of approximately 196640 books that helped train NeMo to simulate ordinary written language, but they were removed in October due to copyright infringement reports.
In the class action lawsuit filed in the San Francisco Federal Court, the authors stated that the delisting reflects Nvidia's "recognition" of training NeMo on the dataset, thereby infringing on their copyright. Therefore, they demand compensation, but the specific amount is unknown.
It is reported that the works involved in the lawsuit include 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".
This lawsuit has dragged Nvidia into an increasing number of lawsuits previously initiated by writers and The New York Times over generative artificial intelligence. Generative artificial intelligence is a technology that creates new content based on inputs such as text, images, and sound.
Previously, Nvidia claimed that NeMo was a fast and cost-effective new option using generative artificial intelligence. The rise of artificial intelligence has made Nvidia the favorite of investors. The company's stock price has risen nearly 600% since the end of 2022, bringing its market value close to $2.2 trillion.
In addition, other companies sued for this technology include OpenAI, which created the artificial intelligence platform ChatGPT, and its partner Microsoft.