Giant of the World Musical Industry, Universal Music, filed a lawsuit against a startup in the field intellect Anthropic. In the center of the dispute is the Claude chatbot, which reproduces songs from the Universal repertoire.
According to representatives of Universal and two other music companies, Anthropic uses the texts of famous performers without permission to create “almost identical” materials. For example, if you ask Claud to provide the lyrics “I Will Survive” Gloria Gainor, he will give a version almost indistinguishable from the original.
Recall that the reproduction and distribution of songs of songs without appropriate permission is violated by the copyright law in the USA.
“This material is protected by copyright, and it cannot be taken just like that, even if it is in the public domain,” lawyers emphasize.
The situation becomes even more relevant against the background of growing attention to the technologies of generative AI, which can create dipfaces with imitation of the votes of stars. Recently, a track generated by a neural network with the voices of Drake and The Weeknd appeared on the Web.
Anthropic startup founded former Open AI employees in 2021. He already managed to attract investments of giants such as Amazon and Google. The growing popularity of Claude causes serious fears in the music studio.
The ability of Claude to generate texts associated not only with specific works, but also the style of certain musicians. “When we asked AI to create a short work in the style of Louis Armstrong, he used the lyrics” What a Wonderful World “,” the statement said.
This dispute resembles the struggle of the musical industry of the early 2000s with service owners like Napster. Meanwhile, Universal, representing such stars as Taylor Swift and Billy Ailish, announced partnership with the Bandlab musical service. The purpose of cooperation is to develop “ethical” rules for working with musical content in AI products, minimizing violations of the law.
Universal also turned to platforms like Spotify with a request to limit access to her musical catalog for neural networks.