Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has reached an agreement with Universal Music and other music publishers over its use of "guardrails" to keep its chatbot Claude from generating copyrighted song lyrics,

While the case is proceeding, Anthropic's Claude will no longer provide lyrics to songs owned by the music publishers or new lyrics based on copyrighted material.

Anthropic reaches agreement in copyright infringement lawsuit with music publishers over AI model training on protected song lyrics.

The AI company still argues that training Claude on copyrighted material constitutes fair use. Anthropic has reached a settlement and agreed to put a stop to showing users music lyrics based on copyrighted songs from several music publishers.