Anthropic sued for allegedly stealing from The King

In recent days, we’ve seen AI threaten to shut down the entire internet and autonomously start hacking major websites just for the world-conquering fun of it, but this time the robots have gone too far. Art least that’s the contention of the rights holders to Elvis Presley’s music catalog who, in a lawsuit filed on Friday, claim that AI giant Anthropic has allowed its Claude large language model (LLM) to scoop up some 274 copyrighted Presley songs in order to grind them into AI slop. According to Rolling Stone, in the filing Authentic Brands Group, owners of Presley’s music and other aspects of the legendary singer’s image, claim, “Claude’ has created infringing output of copyrighted material of virtually every song from every catalog available on the internet, including the Works.

Also reported by A.V. Club.

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