Sony, Warner Music sue Anthropic, saying it pirated songs to train its AI

Anthropic pirated hundreds of lyrics from The Beatles, Taylor Swift, Michael Jackson and other artists, lawsuit says.

aljazeera.com ·2026-08-31

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