Nvidia is under fire from authors who say their work was used to train its AI without permission. Writers, eh. Always begging you to read their work, but when robots do it, suddenly there’s a problem.

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Nvidia is sued by authors over AI use of copyrighted works

Chipmaker Nvidia is being sued by authors who claim the company used their copyrighted books without permission to train its NeMo AI platform. Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian, and Stewart O'Nan say their works were part of a dataset used to simulate ordinary written language, but were taken down in October due to reported copyright infringement. The authors said the takedown shows Nvidia’s “admitted” it trained NeMo on the dataset, and thereby infringed their copyrights.

The works mentioned in the lawsuit include Keene’s Ghost Walk, Nazemian’s Like a Love Story, and O’Nan’s Last Night at the Lobster. Nvidia declined to comment on the lawsuit, while lawyers representing the authors have yet to respond to requests for additional comment.

The case adds Nvidia to a growing list of companies facing litigation over generative AI technologies. Other companies sued over the technology have included OpenAI and Microsoft.

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