alt Hacker News> … 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...
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Godsend69 • today at 4:33 PM
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Oh, for sure. I'm well aware about lyrics copyright, or how even google iirc was sued after a company purposely put wrong lyrics and could prove google was scraping it.
I'm not doubting the law.
What I am saying, is, when a user uploads a screenshot of lyrics and goes "hey can you translate this please?", the LLM shouldn't go out of its way to make a hue and cry as if it's being asked on how to rob a bank while murdering baby kittens.