Music publishers use Anthropic’s ‘guardrails’ against it in securing copyright trial

Artificial intelligence developer Anthropic must face music publishers in a jury trial, according to a federal judge whose order cites the plaintiffs’ argument that “guardrails” implemented by the AI company show it knew users of the large language model Claude were violating copyrighted song lyrics.

“Publishers argue that the Court can infer that Anthropic had ‘actual or constructive knowledge’ that ‘Claude users infringed specific lyrics’ based on Anthropic’s implementation and development of ‘guardrails,’” reads the Oct. 6 order from...