Anthropic, fighting lawsuits over alleged copying of song lyrics, accuses Alibaba of copying Claude to train a rival AI
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Anthropic accuses Alibaba-linked operators of running a large-scale effort to extract Claude’s capabilities through fraudulent accounts and repeated interactions. The dispute comes as Anthropic is already defending lawsuits from music publishers over alleged unauthorized use of song lyrics to train Claude. The article also places the conflict in the broader race among AI labs to protect model outputs, prevent distillation attacks, and push for tighter government action. It notes that Chinese AI models are already being used in music creation and voice tools, which raises the competitive stakes in AI and media. Anthropic is asking Congress to improve threat-sharing, tighten chip access loopholes, and penalize labs involved in these attacks.
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