Nvidia, Databricks Sued by Authors Over AI Model Training (1)

Chipmaker Nvidia Corp. and software firm Databricks Inc. are facing copyright infringement lawsuits from a group of authors alleging the companies’ respective AI models are trained on their books without permission.

The pair of proposed class actions filed in San Francisco federal court allege Nvidia, which makes the NeMo Megatron large language model, and Databricks, which owns the AI firm MosaicML, built their models on a library of pirated digital ebooks known as Books3.

The suits were filed on March 8 by authors Abdi Nazemian, Brian Keene, and Stewart O’Nan, who join dozens of other authors and copyright owners around ...