⚖️ Music giants come for Anthropic's throat
Sony Music and Warner Chappell just sued Anthropic over "tens of thousands" of copyrighted works.
They want up to $150,000 per work in damages.
Do the math and this lawsuit alone could dwarf some AI funding rounds.
Training data lawsuits are becoming the real tax on foundation models, not compute.
Every LLM built on scraped data is now a walking liability, watch who settles first.

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