ETtech Explainer: Nvidia hit with AI copyright lawsuit
authors have filed a lawsuit against graphics processing unit (GPU) giant Nvidia for illegally training its artificial intelligence (AI) platform NeMo on their copyrighted works. This is another development in the growing tensions globally involving intellectual property right holders and companies that make AI models, resulting in similar lawsuits that saw entities such as Microsoft and OpenAI cross swords.
Here's an explainer of what the Nvidia lawsuit says and what these concerns are.
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Authors Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian, and Stewart O’Nan proposed a class action lawsuit against Nvidia in a San Francisco federal court on Friday.
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’ are the works allegedly used as data input for Nvidia’s AI platform NeMo, Reuters reported.
Nvidia describes NeMo as a ‘toolkit’ for conversational AI and natural language processing. Users can leverage the ‘building blocks’ the platform provides to efficiently create their own generative AI.
Gen AI is built using large language models which are trained on vast amounts of data. Major AI players like OpenAI have said that gen AI models do not infringe copyright as they
