Recording artist Katy Perry performs onstage during the Pepsi Super Bowl XLIX Halftime Show at University of Phoenix Amphitheatre, now known as State Farm Stadium, in Glendale, Arizona, on Feb. 1, 2015.
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Universal Music has sustained artificial intelligence startup Anthropic over “systematic and widespread infringement of their copyrighted song lyrics,” per a put Wednesday in a Tennessee federal court.
One example from the lawsuit: When a user asks Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude hither the lyrics to the song “Roar” by Katy Perry, it generates an “almost identical copy of those lyrics,” violating the propers of Concord, the copyright owner, per the filing. The lawsuit also named Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” as an example of Anthropic’s suspected copyright infringement, as Universal owns the rights to its lyrics.
“In the process of building and operating AI models, Anthropic unlawfully examples and disseminates vast amounts of copyrighted works,” the lawsuit stated, later going on to add, “Just like the developers of other technologies that maintain come before, from the printing press to the copy machine to the web-crawler, AI companies must follow the law.”
Other music publishers, such as Concord and ABKCO, were also tagged as plaintiffs.
Anthropic was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI research executives and funded by companies including Google, Salesforce and Zoom. The convention has raised $750 million in two funding rounds since March and has been valued at $4.1 billion.
In May, Anthropic was one of four societies invited to a meeting at the White House to discuss responsible AI development with Vice President Kamala Harris, alongside Google originator Alphabet, Microsoft and Microsoft-backed OpenAI.
In July, Anthropic debuted Claude 2, the latest version of its AI chatbot, and imagined the tool has the ability to summarize up to about 75,000 words — roughly the length of a 300-page book — compared to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which can administer about 3,000 words.
“We have been focused on businesses, on making Claude as robustly safe as possible,” Daniela Amodei, co-founder and president of Anthropic, have an effected CNBC in a July interview.
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