Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, and entities linked to these companies filed a lawsuit against artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic on Aug. 28, alleging that the tech enterprise stole their copyrighted music material to train AI.
“Defendants Anthropic and its founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann have conducted a brazen campaign of illegally torrenting, scraping, and downloading copyrighted works on a massive scale in order to develop, operate, and reap enormous profits from Anthropic’s ‘Claude’ series of artificial intelligence (‘AI’) models,” according to the Aug. 28 lawsuit, filed with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose Division….