Music Publishers Sue AI Startup , Over 'Widespread' Copyright Infringement.<br />On October 18, Universal Music filed a lawsuit against <br />AI startup Anthropic over "systemic and widespread <br />infringement of their copyrighted song lyrics.".<br />On October 18, Universal Music filed a lawsuit against <br />AI startup Anthropic over "systemic and widespread <br />infringement of their copyrighted song lyrics.".<br />NBC reports that two examples <br />cited in the lawsuit are searches for <br />Katy Perry and Gloria Gaynor's lyrics.<br />In the process of building <br />and operating AI models, <br />Anthropic unlawfully copies <br />and disseminates vast amounts <br />of copyrighted works, Universal Music lawsuit, via NBC.<br />Just like the developers of other <br />technologies that have come before, <br />from the printing press to the copy <br />machine to the web-crawler, <br />AI companies must follow the law, Universal Music lawsuit, via NBC.<br />NBC reports that other music publishers <br />were also listed as plaintiffs in the case,<br />including Concord and ABKCO.<br />In 2021, Anthropic was founded by former <br />research executives from OpenAI, with funding <br />from major companies like Google and Zoom.<br />In 2021, Anthropic was founded by former <br />research executives from OpenAI, with funding <br />from major companies like Google and Zoom.<br />Since March, the company has <br />managed to raise $750 million in funding, <br />with a total value now estimated at $4.1 billion.<br />In July, the company unveiled Claude 2, <br />the latest iteration of its AI chatbot. .<br />According to Anthropic, Claude 2 <br />has the ability to summarize up <br />to approximately 75,000 words. .<br />By comparison, OpenAI's ChatGPT <br />can only handle summaries up <br />to about 3,000 words.<br />We have been focused on <br />businesses, on making Claude <br />as robustly safe as possible, Daniela Amodei, co-founder and <br />president of Anthropic, via CNBC
