Anthropic Sued Over Alleged Use of Elvis Presley Songs to Train Claude, Denies Claim

Anthropic, the company behind AI assistant Claude , faces a copyright infringement lawsuit over the alleged unauthorised use of 274 Elvis Presley songs to train its AI models. The lawsuit was filed on October 23 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, alongside other entities and rights holders with interests in Presley's music catalogue. The plaintiffs allege that Anthropic used copyrighted songs to train Claude without permission or payment.