Anthropic sued for allegedly stealing from The King
The Elvis Presley estate alleges that Anthropic's Claude software is training AI with unauthorized use of the late singer's works.
Authentic Brands Group, owners of Elvis Presley's music catalog and image, have filed a lawsuit against AI company Anthropic. According to the lawsuit, Anthropic's Claude large language model (LLM) scraped around 274 of Presley's copyrighted songs to create AI-generated content. Despite the company allegedly implementing "guardrails" after a previous lawsuit, Claude continued to infringe on the copyrighted material.
When asked to recreate specific songs for a modern audience, Claude admitted that its output was "very close" to the original, with "same structure, same hooks reused with light rewording, and full sets of verses/choruses/bridges." Authentic Brands Group claims the infringement is worth $150,000 per infringed song, totaling approximately $41.5 million.
While the case may be seen as humans futilely trying to assert control over creative work, it highlights the growing issue of AI illegally scraping millions of copyrighted songs.
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