Lawyer admits ‘embarrassing’ mistake after Anthropic’s Claude made up a source in a legal filing—and no one caught it
- Anthropic’s attorney admitted to using an imagined source in an ongoing legal battle between the AI company and music publishers Universal Music Group, Concord, and ABKCO Music & Records. The result of the error was that Anthropic data scientist Olivia Chen was accused of citing a made-up academic report to strengthen an argument. An associate for Athropic’s law firm took the blame, calling it an “honest citation mistake” after the inaccurate material was overlooked during a manual review.