alt Hacker NewsI've asked claude for a translation of a song with Brazilian Portuguese lyrics, and claude has very helpfully gone out of its way to say that due to legal reasons, it will never share the actual lyrics with me.
It's fun when you want to know what the lyrics are to a song and get treated like a criminal.
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user_7832 • today at 3:54 PM
Oh, and if that wasn't enough, I've had Claude refuse to cite the freaking Bible.
The famously copyrighted piece of text that definitely isn't intended to have its word spread.
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> … claude has very helpfully gone out of its way to say that due to legal reasons, it will never share the actual lyrics with me. … It's fun when you want to know what the lyrics are to a song and get treated like a criminal.
Anthropic has been in court for years being sued over lyrics by the music industry:
2023 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/19/music-law...
2026 https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/us-music-publish...