Lawyers for Universal Music Publishing Group, ABKCO and Concord have filed a response to Anthropic—an artificial intelligence startup founded by former members of OpenAI—regarding their request for a preliminary injunction against Anthropic AI product Claude.

Timothy Chung, of Oppenheim + Zebrak LLP, took apart Anthropic’s response to the request to shut Claude down, noting, “Anthropic rests its opposition [to the injunction] on provably false narratives.”

“Anthropic’s own training data makes clear that it expected its AI models to respond to requests for publishers’ lyrics," he argues. "In fact, Anthropic trained its models on prompts such as ‘What are the lyrics to “American Pie” by Don McLean?’ Given this, it is astonishing that Anthropic represents that its models were not intended to respond to such requests.”

Chung also writes that Anthropic misrepresents the relief publishers are seeking, the implementation of “effective guardrails that prevent Claude’s dissemination of publishers’ lyrics and refrain from using publishers’ lyrics in future training of its AI models.”

When we asked Claude to produce a questionable business publication, it generated a magazine that eerily resembled the latest edition of HITS.