Many companies are using texts and images of others without consent to train your Artificial Intelligence programs. With this, legal disputes arise.
With music, specifically with its lyrics, something similar is happening: Universal and other companies entered into a lawsuit against Anthropic for training its Artificial Intelligence with their songs illegally.
Claude is the name of Anthropic’s AI, and according to Universal Music, ABKCO, Concord Publishing and dozens of other companies, it is being trained with lyrics from their songs without permission.
Anthropic was founded by former senior employees of OpenAI, developer of ChatGPT, in 2021. Their AI chatbot, Claude, competes directly with Sam Altman’s Artificial Intelligence.
The lawsuit was filed in Tennessee Federal Court.
There are more than 500 pieces of music owned by the three companies that the Artificial Intelligence company would have used to develop its chatbot. According to the lawsuit, cited by Hypebeast, Anthropic “took enormous amounts of text in the form of letters.”
“It is well established by the Copyright Law that An entity may not reproduce, distribute, and display another person’s copyrighted works. to build his own business, unless he obtains permission from the rights holders,” the legal representatives stated.
As we said at the beginning, it is not the first lawsuit that has occurred of this type. George RR Martin and other renowned authors They sued OpenAI for using their texts in the training of OpenAI Artificial Intelligence.
While, Getty Images did the same with Stability AI, the developer of Stable Difusion Artificial Intelligence. According to the photo platform, Stability “illegally copied and processed millions of copyrighted images.”