Sony Music Publishing and Warner Records filed a lawsuit against the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, accusing it of using copyrighted songs to train its virtual assistant Claude. The publishers allege that Anthropic carried out a "blatant campaign" to illegally obtain works covered by copyright.
The lawsuit, filed in a United States federal court, seeks damages that can reach up to 150,000 dollars per musical track used without authorization. The music companies consider that Anthropic systematically violated copyright by reproducing and using lyrics and recordings of songs in the development of its language models.
Anthropic, the creator of Claude, has not yet publicly commented on the lawsuit. This action comes in the context of a significant increase in litigation between technology companies and copyright holders, who accuse AI companies of using protected content to train their systems without permission.
This lawsuit joins a series of similar legal actions brought by record labels and authors against technology companies in recent years, as the music industry seeks to protect its assets from unauthorized use by artificial intelligence systems.
