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, writers Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian and Stewart O'Nan claim that their works were part of a dataset of nearly 200,000 books used to train NeMo to simulate common written language, but that the copyrighted works were later removed from the dataset "due to allegations of infringement."
The writers said Nvidia "admitted" that it had used their work to train an AI system, constituting copyright infringement. They are seeking unspecified damages 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.