Music Publishers Sue Anthropic, Alleging Company Used Song Lyrics To Train AI

Universal Music, ABKCO and Concord Publishing have teamed up to file a lawsuit against AI company Anthropic. The music publishers took to the Tennesse federal court to accuse Anthropic of using copyrighted song lyrics to train its AI chatbot, Claude.The lawsuit names over 500 songs that Anthropic allegedly took the lyrics from, with the music publishers claiming copyright infringement. The publishers say in the suit that Anthropic took "massive amounts of text" in the form of lyrics without thei...