Sony and Warner accuse Anthropic of training Claude on tens of thousands of pirated works. Should the model be retrained from scratch?
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Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell allege that Anthropic used mass torrenting, scraping, and downloading to train Claude. Anthropic disputes the claims and says it will defend itself. A fine could simply become the cost of doing business. But forcing a company to discard or retrain a model c…
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