Get the latest tech news

Anthropic’s lawyer was forced to apologize after Claude hallucinated a legal citation


A lawyer representing Anthropic used Claude to generate citations in a court filing, then it hallucinated.

A lawyer representing Anthropic admitted to using an erroneous citation created by the company’s Claude AI chatbot in its ongoing legal battle with music publishers, according to a filing made in a Northern California court on Thursday. The music publishers lawsuit is one of several disputes between copyright owners and tech companies over the supposed misuse of their work to create generative AI tools. Previously with Gizmodo, Bloomberg, and MSNBC, Zeff has covered the rise of AI and the Silicon Valley Bank crisis.

Get the Android app

Or read this on TechCrunch

Read more on:

Photo of Anthropic

Anthropic

Photo of lawyer

lawyer

Photo of Claude

Claude

Related news:

News photo

AI power rankings upended: OpenAI, Google rise as Anthropic falls, Poe report finds

News photo

Anthropic co-founder Jared Kaplan is coming to TechCrunch Sessions: AI

News photo

Toronto judge accuses lawyer of using AI and fake cases to make legal arguments