Music Publishers Sue Anthropic for Misusing Songs to Train Claude

Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic was hit with a new lawsuit in California federal court by music publishers Universal Music Group Concord and ABKCO for allegedly misusing their songs to train Anthropic's chatbot Claude. The publishers said in the lawsuit that Anthropic pirated more than 700 of their works — including the lyrics and sheet music to the Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses," Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline" and Elton John's "Bennie and the Jets" — and violated their rights in thousands more.