Nvidia sued for training NeMo on authors' copyrighted works

GPU chip provider Nvidia has been sued by 3 authors accusing it of training it's NeMo models on copyrighted books.

Nvidia's NeMo platform is a tool for enterprises to develop custom GenAI. In October 2023, Nvidia acknowledged training Nemo's models on a dataset containing approximately 196,640 books, and removed the data set amidst copyright infringement concerns. 

In March 2024, authors Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian and Stewart O'Nan submitted a class action for copyright infringement, saying their works were part of this dataset and were trained on without their permission. They are seeking unspecified damages.