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Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian and Stewart O'Nan said their works
were part of a dataset of about 196,640 books that helped train
NeMo to simulate ordinary written language, before being taken
down in October "due to reported copyright infringement."
In a proposed class action filed on Friday night in San
Francisco federal court, the authors said the takedown reflects
Nvidia's having "admitted" it trained NeMo on the dataset, and
thereby infringed their copyrights.
They are seeking unspecified damages for people in the United
States whose copyrighted works helped train NeMo's so-called
large language models in the last three years.
Among the works covered by the lawsuit 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."
Nvidia declined to comment on Sunday. Lawyers for the authors
did not immediately respond to requests on Sunday for additional
comment.
The lawsuit drags Nvidia into a growing body of litigation by
writers, as well as the New York Times, over generative AI,
which creates new content based on inputs such as text, images
and sounds.
Nvidia touts NeMo as a fast and affordable way to adopt
generative AI.
Other companies sued over the technology have included OpenAI,
which created the AI platform ChatGPT, and its partner
Microsoft.
AI's rise has made Nvidia a favorite of investors.
The Santa Clara, California-based chipmaker's stock price has
risen almost 600% since the end of 2022, giving Nvidia a market
value of nearly $2.2 trillion.
The case is Nazemian et al v Nvidia Corp, U.S. District Court,
Northern District of California, No. 24-01454.
(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Josie
Kao)
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