Sony and Warner Music have filed lawsuits against Anthropic, alleging one of the largest intellectual property thefts in history. According to the claim, Anthropic conducted widespread torrenting, scraping, and illegal downloads of copyrighted works to develop, operate, and profit from its AI models.
The music publishers allege that thousands of songs were pirated in the process. They are seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars for each allegedly infringed work. Anthropic has denied the allegations. The dispute highlights the growing tensions between content creators and AI companies over training data acquisition and the boundaries of fair use in AI development.