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Anthropic blames Claude AI for ‘embarrassing and unintentional mistake’ in legal filing


Well that’s not a good look.

An erroneous citation was included in a filing submitted by Anthropic data scientist Olivia Chen on April 30th, as part of the AI company’s defense against claims that copyrighted lyrics were used to train Claude. An attorney representing Universal Music Group, ABKCO, and Concord said in a hearing that sources referenced in Chen’s filing were a “complete fabrication,” and implied they were hallucinated by Anthropic’s AI tool. Last week, a California Judge chastised two law firms for failing to disclose that AI was used to create a supplemental brief rife with “bogus” materials that “didn’t exist.” A misinformation expert admitted in December that ChatGPT had hallucinated citations in a legal filing he’d submitted.

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