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From Yahoo! Finance: “Now it’s NVIDIA being sued over AI copyright infringement”
It’s getting hard to keep up with copyright lawsuits against generative AI, with a new proposed class action hitting the courts last week. This time, authors are suing NVIDIA over its AI platform NeMo, a language model that allows businesses to create and train their own chatbots, Ars Technica reported. They claim the company trained it on a controversial dataset that illegally used their books without consent.
Authors Abdi Nazemian, Brian Keene and Stewart O’Nan demanded a jury trial and asked NVIDIA to pay damages and destroy all copies of the Books3 dataset used to power NeMo large language models (LLMs). They claim that dataset copied a shadow library called Bibliotek consisting of 196,640 pirated books.
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/now-its-nvidia-being-sued-over-ai-copyright-infringement-083407300.html
From Deadline: Callum Turner, Kristine Kujath Thorp & Gustav Lindh To Star In Dara Van Dusen’s ‘A Prayer For The Dying’
EXCLUSIVE: Rising British actor Callum Turner (Masters Of The Air, The Boys In The Boat) is set to star alongside Norway’s Kristine Kujath Thorp (Ninjababy, Sick of Myself) and Sweden’s Gustav Lindh (The Northman, Queen of Hearts) in Dara Van Dusen’s A Prayer For The Dying.
Anton and New Europe Films sales have co-acquired international rights for the upcoming English-language survival thriller.
Based on a novel by Stewart O’Nan, the film takes place in 1870 in Friendship, Wisconsin, a small town of Scandinavian settlers still suffering the repercussions of the recent Civil War.
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source: Deadline
From The New York Times Book Review: 6 New Paperbacks to Read This Week – Ocean State
Ocean State is one of the six! Check it out at The New York Times.
OCEAN STATE, by Stewart O’Nan.
In the first line of this novel, its narrator announces that her teenage sister helped kill a local girl. What starts as a fast-paced thriller set in coastal Rhode Island morphs into a chilling novel about class, desperation and young love.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/03/10/books/review/new-paperbacks.html
3/7/2023 6pm: The Pittsburgh Novel Book Launch!
An event hosted by
the University of Pittsburgh Library System
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Reading Room, Archives & Special Collections, Third Floor, Hillman Library
Registration is required (free)
On March 7 at 6:00 p.m., the University of Pittsburgh Library System will host an event to celebrate the digital publication of The Pittsburgh Novel: Western Pennsylvania in Fiction and Drama, 1792–2022 by Peter Oresick and Jake Oresick. The Pittsburgh Novel is an annotated bibliography of all known fiction with a significant geographical setting in any of Pennsylvania’s 26 westernmost counties. The event will feature co-author Jake Oresick, and authors whose Pittsburgh-based books are featured in the bibliography, including Stewart O’Nan; Mark Clayton Southers, representing the late August Wilson; and Ellen Prentiss Campbell.
https://pitt.libcal.com/event/10325058
The Works of Stewart O'Nan 