The lawsuit also alleges that Anthropic was aware it was duplicating copyrighted information without permission and refused to be transparent about the materials used to train Claude. The AI model is said to respond with exact or nearly exact copies of the publishers' copyrighted lyrics when prompted by users. The publishers, while recognizing the potential of AI, accuse Anthropic of failing to abide by copyright laws, which they claim other technology companies regularly do.
Key takeaways:
- AI company Anthropic is being sued by Universal Music, ABKCO, and Concord Publishing for alleged copyright infringement of their songs.
- The publishers accused Anthropic of using copyrighted song lyrics to train its chatbot Claude and posting the lyrics in its prompted answers without permission.
- Anthropic allegedly used lyrics from over 500 songs for training its chatbot, leading to the publishers seeking potentially tens of millions of dollars in damages.
- The lawsuit also claims that Anthropic was aware of its copyright violations and refused to be transparent about the materials used to train its AI model.