Nvidia Sued for AI Tech Copyright Infringement by Three Authors - IGN

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As the AI race continues, Nvidia is the latest tech giant to become the target of legal action. Three authors are suing the GPU maker for copyright infringement.

First reported by Reuters, authors Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian, and Stewart O'Nan allege that one of Nvidia's large datasets used their books to train NeMo, the company's cloud-based toolkit for creating and customizing large language models (LLMs), without author consent. The lawsuit was filed late last week in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, with the plaintiffs seeking damages for the use of their novels.

Although Nvidia is best known for its GeForce GTX and RTX line of desktop and laptop graphics cards, over the last several years, Nvidia has become a dominant force in artificial intelligence across both software and hardware markets. Nvidia's AI dominance helped the company reach a $2 trillion market cap late last month.

Nvidia declined to comment on the lawsuit.

AI Training and Copyright Law

With the filing of this lawsuit, Nvidia joins a growing list of tech companies that are being sued over how it uses datasets to train its AI tech. Generative AI products like OpenAI's ChatGPT-3 or Google Bard require a substantial amount of data to train them, which has become a hot subject in copyright law as many, particularly creative professionals like artists and authors, take legal action for their work being used to train these technologies without their consent.

Other AI-related copyrighted lawsuits include OpenAI, which is being sued by 18 authors, including Game of Thrones author George R R. Martin, for copyright infringement. Both Meta and Microsoft also face legal action in the same realm; the former used copyrighted books to train its LLMs, while Microsoft (and OpenAI) are being sued by The New York Times for alleged "unauthorized use of published work" to train its AI tech.

With many lawsuits filed within the last year, artificial intelligence may be a key component in changing United States copyright law. Tech companies argue that AI training is no different from how humans learn new things and that it is protected under "fair use." In contrast, plaintiffs in these lawsuits argue that the lack of consent for using their work for AI training is a misuse of their work.

Taylor is a Reporter at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster.

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