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,

Music publishers allege that Anthropic violated copyright policies by using hundreds of songs to train its Claude chatbot.

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.

The AI company still argues that training Claude on copyrighted material constitutes fair use.