NVIDIA Sued , Over AI Copyright Infringement.
Authors have sued NVIDIA over NeMo, the company's AI language model that helps to create and train chatbots, Engadget reports.
Authors have sued NVIDIA over NeMo, the company's AI language model that helps to create and train chatbots, Engadget reports.
According to authors Abdi Nazemian, Brian Keene and Stewart O'Nan, their books were illegally used to train the AI.
They are seeking a jury trial and want NIVIDIA to pay damages and destroy the dataset that powers NeMo's large language models.
According to the authors, the Books3 dataset copied Bibliotek, a shadow library containing 196,640 pirated books.
In sum, NVIDIA has admitted training its NeMo Megatron models on a copy of The Pile dataset.
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Therefore, NVIDIA necessarily also trained its NeMo Megatron models on a copy of Books3, because Books3 is part of The Pile.
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Certain books written by Plaintiffs are part of Books3— including the Infringed Works—, Via lawsuit against NVIDIA.
... and thus NVIDIA necessarily trained its NeMo Megatron models on one or more copies of the Infringed Works, thereby directly infringing the copyrights of the Plaintiffs, Via lawsuit against NVIDIA.
NVIDIA responded to the suit, telling 'The Wall Street Journal,' "we respect the rights of all content creators and believe we created NeMo in full compliance with copyright law.".
OpenAI and Microsoft were hit with a similar lawsuit last year.
