> … 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:

2023 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/19/music-law...

2026 https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/us-music-publish...

Oh, for sure. I'm well aware about lyrics copyright, or how even google (iirc) was used 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.

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