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.

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.