A federal district court in California is set to hear arguments this week as a group of music publishers sues Anthropic, alleging that the artificial intelligence (AI) firm is stealing their work.
Led by Concord Music Group, the plaintiffs say that Anthropic trained its AI model, Claude, using copyrighted lyrics from their artists. The next hearing is slated for Oct. 21.
In a separate case, Concord alleges that Anthropic used pirated copies of 20,517 music works—accessed from torrent sites—to train Claude.
The lawsuits are just two of dozens of legal actions taken by publishers in the book, news, and art industries, as creatives argue that AI companies have trained their models on existing work with an intent to replace human ingenuity with machine outputs. …