Stop me if you’ve heard this one, but a group of authors has filed a prospective class action lawsuit against the developer of a generative AI model alleging copyright infringement. Filed Friday (March 8) in the Northern District of California, the suit targets Nvidia, the chipmaker whose GPUs are widely used in data centers to handle the massive computing work required to train and manage generative AI models, but which also provides its own Large Language Models as part of its NeMo Megatron AI development tool kit.
The complaint names three plaintiffs, authors Abdi Nazemian, Brian Keene and Stewart O’Nan, but seeks money damages on behalf of “All persons or entities domiciled in the United States that own a United States copyright in any work” used in training the Nvidia LLM, known as NeMo Megatron.