Last month, Anthropic was at the center of public backlash for a plan, called Project Panama, to “destructively scan all the books in the world” to train its Claude AI models. Now the AI company finds itself again facing the (copyright) music.
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have sued Anthropic, naming CEO Dario Amodei and cofounder Benjamin Mann as individual defendants, for what the suit characterizes as illegally downloading, scraping, and torrenting “thousands upon thousands” of copyrighted songs to train its AI models.
