US EditionAnthropic’s lawyer was forced to apologize after Claude hallucinated a legal citation
- Anthropic’s lawyer admitted on Thursday in a Northern California court filing that Claude AI hallucinated an erroneous legal citation.
- This admission followed accusations from music publishers in a $75 million lawsuit alleging Anthropic trained Claude on copyrighted lyrics without permission.
- The flawed citation included inaccurate authors and title, and Anthropic said their manual citation review failed to catch this and other AI-generated errors.
- Plaintiff’s lawyer Matt Oppenheim described the citation as entirely fabricated, suggesting it was probably generated by Claude, while Anthropic maintained that the error was a miscitation rather than a deliberate falsehood.
- The case highlights ongoing legal pressures on AI firms over unlicensed use of copyrighted content, with hearings and motions to dismiss scheduled through mid-2025.
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