Nvidia Sued by Journalists, Podcasters Over AI Biometric Claims

Nvidia Corp. was sued by award-winning journalists and podcasters accusing the trillion-dollar tech giant of using their voices without permission to train its AI products.

Nvidia violated Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act by collecting the creators’ unique voiceprints from publicly available recordings, exploiting them to create voice AI products, and commercially distributing the models, according to a complaint filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

The proposed class action joins a trio of similar lawsuits filed by independent musicians against Google LLC and AI music generators Suno Inc. and Uncharted Labs Inc. that lean ...