Music Publishers Sue Amazon-backed AI Platform for Copyright Infringement
Music Publishers Sue Amazon-backed AI Platform for Copyright Infringement
Universal Music Publishing Group, Concord, and Abkco sued Amazon-backed AI startup Anthropic over claims the company infringed their songs.
I’m very interested in this case and am curious to see where the courts draw the line here.
Beware of an incoming hot take - I don’t see the concept of training AI on published works as much different than a human learning from published works as long as they both go on to make their own original works. I have definitely seen AIs straight-up plagiarize before, but that seems like a different issue entirely from producing similar works. I think allowing plagiarism is a problem with the constraints of the training rather than a fundamental problem with the entire concept of AI training.
A standard I could see being applied is one that I think has some precedent, where if the work it is supposed to be similar to is anywhere in the training set then it's a copyright violation. One of the valid defenses against copyright claims in court is that the defendant reasonably could have been unaware of the original work, and that seems to me like a reasonable equivalent.
Beware of an incoming hot take - I don’t see the concept of training AI on published works as much different than a human learning from published works as long as they both go on to make their own original works.
The fact that this is considered a "hot take" is depressing.
These dumb fucks should go ahead and sue Google, then, if searching and providing song lyrics is considered copyright infringement.