Elvis sues Anthropic, and other fights over our data
AI models learn from huge amounts of text, and many owners never said yes. On October 23, rights holders for 274 songs recorded by Elvis Presley sued Anthropic in US federal court. They say Anthropic copied the lyrics without a license, kept them in a permanent internal library, and used them to train Claude. They also say Claude produced copies or derivative versions after its guardrails.
Other data stories came up this weekend. A class action site promotes a lawsuit saying OpenAI used kids' data for ChatGPT. Details are thin, so treat it as a claim for now. And a post with 290 points on Hacker News says Samsung runs a small AI model on low-resolution images to track users. It comes from one tweet, so it is not confirmed.
The Elvis case is now in court. The others need more facts.
Who can use your words, your songs, your kids' data or your camera? The courts are slowly answering, but AI moves much faster than a trial.
