Nvidia has been sued for using books to train its NeMo artificial intelligence (AI) without the authors’ permission. The lawsuit was filed by three authors whose books were part of a database of 196,640 works used to develop the GPU maker’s model.
The lawsuit was filed by Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian and Stewart O’Nan. They are seeking unspecified damages for individuals whose works are copyrighted in the U.S. but have been used to train NeMo for the past three years.
Nvidia NeMo was announced in March 2023 but taken offline for “alleged intellectual property infringement” in October of the same year. The model was trained to simulate common written language.
In a class-action lawsuit filed in the United States federal court in San Francisco, the trio of authors claim that the model’s removal is Nvidia’s admission of unregulated use of the content. Until now, Nvidia did not comment on the issue.
Nvidia surfs the AI wave
Nvidia’s presence in the artificial intelligence market produces valuable results for the company. In February, the manufacturer reached a market cap of US$2 trillion, becoming the latest company to reach this historic price along with Microsoft and Apple.
The company’s new value represents a growth of 265% compared to the previous year. Much of this momentum is driven by the GPU maker’s growth in the AI segment, as well as sales of the data center sector.
Source: Tec Mundo
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