Music publishers allege that Anthropic violated copyright policies by using hundreds of songs to train its Claude chatbot.

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.

A partial settlement signed in the U.S. District Court of Northern California requires Anthropic to use “guardrails” to protect copyrighted lyrics allegedly used to train its premier AI product, Claude.

Under the agreement signed by Anthropic on Thursday, the AI company says it will maintain the guardrails it has already implemented that aim to prevent its AI models from infringi

The music industry's first victory over Anthropic: the AI provider must install guard rails. However, the question of training remains open.

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.