Claude Makes Up a Source, Lawyers Make Up Excuses, Anthropic Apologizes to the Court
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Fabricated citations are a bad look when the fabrication is headed for a judge.
What happened
In an ongoing copyright lawsuit brought by music publishers, Anthropic admitted that its chatbot Claude generated a citation with an invented title and false authors, which appeared in expert testimony from an Anthropic employee. The error passed manual review, and Anthropic's attorney apologized to the court after the judge asked for an explanation.