Anthropic has partially settled a lawsuit with music publishers, agreeing to bolster copyright protections in its AI model.

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,

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

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.

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.

Publishers want to prevent the use of copyrighted content for AI training. However, the court battle is far from over. The music publishers who are suing Anthropic want to make su