Authors Abdi Nazemian, Stewart O’Nan, and Brian Keene have initiated legal action against Nvidia Corp., alleging that the company utilized their copyrighted material to train NeMo, an artificial intelligence toolkit designed for conversational purposes. This lawsuit echoes a previous legal complaint filed by The New York Times against OpenAI and Microsoft Corp. in December.
According to the plaintiffs, Nvidia utilized their copyrighted content multiple times to train its NeMo Megatron language models. NeMo is utilized by researchers to streamline the process of developing new conversational AI models by incorporating previously existing work, including code and pretrained models.
In response to these allegations, an Nvidia spokesperson asserted that they uphold the rights of content creators and maintain that NeMo was developed in adherence to copyright regulations.
This lawsuit against Nvidia adds to the legal scrutiny facing companies in the AI sector, with OpenAI also facing allegations of copyright infringement. Despite these legal challenges, Nvidia’s stock has experienced significant gains in 2024, although it faced a temporary setback due to concerns raised by analysts about the stock’s high trading levels.
This copywrite thing is beginning to sound like a bathroom freestyle.
Everyone is throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks.
What actually is the essence of these law suits. We have not seen anyone concluded to know whos winning the battle.
They are waiting until the big tech companies finish training and finetuning there AI models before they will start ruling to outlaw copyright infringements.
That’s crazy.
We can’t let big tech corporations steal our sweat and tears! These authors deserve compensation for their work, even if it’s used to train machines.
Restricting access to copyrighted materials could really cripple AI development, imao. It’s like trying to teach a child how to speak without letting them read books or listen to conversations. We need a fair use framework that allows innovation to flourish while still protecting creators. It’s all about striking the right balance, What do you guys think?
This is uncharted territory legally. The concept of “fair use” in the context of AI training is pretty murky. Courts will have to grapple with the unique nature of AI and its creative outputs…
These lawsuits are just the first battles in what’s going to be a long legal war. It’s going to be interesting to see how things unfold.