Three writers have sued Nvidia, a company whose processors enable artificial intelligence, claiming that the company utilised their copyrighted writings without their consent to train its NeMo robot and launch a new AI platform.

The works of Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian, and Stewart O’Nan were removed in October “due to reported copyright infringement.” The dataset, which included roughly 196,640 volumes, was used to train NeMo to mimic conventional written language.

The authors claimed that Nvidia “admitted” that it trained NeMo on the dataset, infringing their copyrights, and that this is why the takedown occurred in a proposed class action that was submitted on Friday night in federal court in San Francisco.

For individuals in the US whose copyrighted works were used to train NeMo’s “big language models” during the previous three years, they are suing for undisclosed damages.

Among the literary pieces encompassed by the legal action are 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.”

On Sunday, Nvidia declined to comment. Requests for further comment on Sunday were not immediately answered by the writers’ solicitors.

The complaint involves Nvidia and generative AI, which generates new content from inputs including text, photos, and sounds. It is part of an increasing number of lawsuits filed by writers and the New York Times about this technology.

Microsoft and OpenAI, the company that developed ChatGPT, are among the other businesses that have been sued over the technology.

Investors now favour Nvidia because to the growth of AI.

Since the end of 2022, the stock price of the Santa Clara, California-based chipmaker has increased by about 600%, placing Nvidia’s market worth at almost $2.2 trillion.

Nvidia Corp. v. Nazemian et al. is the case in question; it is No. 24-01454 in the Northern District of California U.S. District Court.

(Adapted from BusinessToday.in)