Citation Errors in Concord Music v. Anthropic Attributed to Claude AI Use by Defense Counsel
Description
In a legal filing in Universal Music Group et al. v. Anthropic, lawyers for Anthropic acknowledged that expert witness testimony submitted in the case contained erroneous citations generated by the company's Claude AI system. The filing stated that the inaccuracies, which included incorrect article titles and author names, were not caught during manual review. Anthropic characterized the issue as an honest mistake and apologized in court.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- anthropic
Alleged Developers
- anthropic
Harmed Parties
- anthropic
- judicial-integrity
- ivana-dukanovic
- brittany-n.-lovejoy
- joseph-r.-wetzel
- andrew-m.-gass
- allison-l.-stillman
- sarang-v.-damle
- sara-e.-sampoli
- rachel-s.-horn
- latham-and-watkins-llp
Classification
Risk Domain
MisinformationRisk Subdomain
3.1. False or misleading information
MIT Risk Profile
Source
Related Incidents (Misinformation)
View all →Research Papers on This Topic
Fast-DetectGPT: Efficient Zero-Shot Detection of Machine-Generated Text via Conditional Probability Curvature
Why Language Models Hallucinate
CIFAKE: Image Classification and Explainable Identification of AI-Generated Synthetic Images
Degenerate Feedback Loops in Recommender Systems