Nvidia is the latest AI-centric company to become the target of a copyright lawsuit.
The company, whose chips help power artificial intelligence (AI) applications, is being sued by three authors accusing the company. Use copyrighted books Their consent was not given to training on the NeMo AI platform, Reuters reported on Sunday (March 10).
According to the report, authors Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian, and Stewart O'Nan said their books “simulate normal written language before being discontinued in October due to reports of copyright infringement.” “This is part of a dataset of approximately 196,640 works that helped train NeMo to do this.” ”
The lawsuit claims that the fact that the books were removed is an admission that NVIDIA infringed its copyright by training NeMo on the dataset. According to Reuters, the authors are seeking unspecified damages from people in the United States who used their copyrighted work to train NeMo's large-scale language models (LLMs) over the past three years. It is said that there is.
An Nvidia spokesperson declined to comment when contacted by PYMNTS.
The proposed class action lawsuit is the latest in a series of such lawsuits targeting AI companies. In December, Group of 11 authors Participated in a lawsuit against the ChatGPT manufacturer OpenAI and their partners microsoftaccused the company of copyright infringement.
In the same month, the New York Times also published a report stating: Own copyright infringement lawsuit It filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that the technology companies used its content without consent to develop AI products.
Contacted by PYMNTS at the time, an OpenAI spokesperson said the company respects the rights of content creators and owners and is “committed to working with them to ensure they benefit from AI technology and new revenue models.” I'm working hard on that.”
Meanwhile, as the AI industry continues to grow, Nvidia is on track to overtake Apple to become the world's second most valuable company, strengthening its position as the undisputed leader of the AI chip market. . boasts an 80% share.
“This advantage has led to a jump in valuation,” PYMNTS wrote last week. “The company's value has ballooned from $1 trillion to more than $2 trillion in nine months, a feat that puts it ahead of Amazon, Google's parent company Alphabet, and Saudi Aramco.”
On Friday, Nvidia's market capitalization approached the $2.38 trillion mark, $230 billion behind Apple and $645 billion behind leader Microsoft.