Nvidia, Databricks Sued in Latest AI Copyright Class Actions

Four prominent authors filed putative class actions against software companies Nvidia Corp. and Databricks Inc., joining a parade of creators suing for copyright infringement over inputs used to train generative AI models.

Novelist Andre Dubus III and journalist and nonfiction writer Susan Orlean alleged Nvidia’s NeMo Megatron models were trained by copying their and others’ work in a complaint filed Thursday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. Fiction authors Rebecca Makkai and Jason Reynolds filed a nearly-identical suit against Databricks Inc. over its MosaicML model in the same court Thursday.

The claims made by ...