Don’t trust AI companies with your content. Verify them instead

The industry has given publishers every reason for suspicion. Smart ones turn it into a monitoring system, not a blackout.

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Pete Pachal is a journalist and the creator of Media Copilot, a newsletter and podcast that examines how AI is changing media, journalism, and the news.

If it’s a day ending in Y, you can count on a story that further erodes the public’s trust in Big Tech. This week it was Sony Music and Warner suing Anthropic over copyright, accusing the AI company of illicitly pirating music and song lyrics from its catalog to train its AI models. With the lawsuit, Anthropic is now officially the target of all three major music publishers, since Universal brought a similar action in January.

As copyright lawsuits go, the allegations are pretty juicy. They paint a picture of Anthropic brazenly pirating music catalogs through torrenting and copying huge troves of lyrics from third-party websites wholesale. The filing claims Anthropic cofounder Benjamin Mann personally conducted or directed the torrenting and discussed it openly in Slack channels.........

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