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24 October 2023FeaturesCopyright ChannelMarisa Woutersen

Universal’s suit against Anthropic fuels genAI debate

Universal Music and Concord Music Group have sued artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic, accusing it of stealing copyrighted song lyrics to train its AI systems.

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