NVIDIA Faces AI Copyright Lawsuit on Training Data from Authors, Like OpenAI

NVIDIA faces a new lawsuit from authors claiming that the company's AI training platform, NeMo, illegally used their books for training without consent.

NVIDIA Faces AI Copyright Lawsuit on Training Data from Authors, Like OpenAI

A new batch of authors are taking the fight against NVIDIA’s AI training, claiming that the company’s NeMo platform illegally used their books for training without their consent. This lawsuit is similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT copyright case, where authors claimed that the company used their works for training their AI platform without authorization.

NVIDIA Faces AI Copyright Lawsuit from Book Authors

The chipmakers are now urged to pay for the damages this copyright issue caused the authors and to delete their dataset of illegally obtained books for AI training. According to a proposed class action lawsuit, NVIDIA allegedly copied the works of three authors without their consent and authorization, violating the copyright laws for the training of its AI large language model, NeMo.

The plaintiffs include Abdi Nazemian, Stewart O’Nan, and Brian Keene, who argued that NVIDIA should pay for the damages it caused their names and works, as well as destroy all the copies of its Books3 dataset used for the NeMo LLM.

“The authors are asking for a jury trial, with the court finding NVIDIA’s case to have no defense for the alleged copyright infringement of their works.”

The authors claimed that NVIDIA took the dataset from Hugging Face before it was taken down, with the company making “multiple copies” of it. The authors are asking for a jury trial, with the court finding NVIDIA’s case to have no defense for the alleged copyright infringement of their works.

Image: AI Copyright Lawsuit

OpenAI’s Copyright Lawsuit and NVIDIA

Back in July 2023, the first copyright lawsuit from book authors served up OpenAI and its ChatGPT, with authors Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay claiming that the company’s large language model illegally trained on their works. Soon after, the company was hit with subsequent lawsuits from the likes of Michael Chabon, Rachel Louise Snyder, Ayelet Waldman, and David Henry Hwang.

NVIDIA’s AI Rise

That being said, these were taking place as NVIDIA was rising up the ranks in the realm of AI, from their renowned developments of the AI chips used for deploying the technology for the likes of OpenAI, X.AI, Microsoft, Meta, and more. With this newfound focus on AI, the company’s stocks saw a 59 percent surge in artificial intelligence, skyrocketing to a $2 trillion valuation.

AI Chips

When NVIDIA released its AI, the company was met with enthusiasm and massive regard for its technology, but it was not long before the company faced a massive claim against its LLM training tactics. In this new AI copyright class action lawsuit, three authors came together to fight against their alleged illegal use of said works for LLM training, taking this issue to court.