Anthropic’s lawyer was forced to apologize after Claude hallucinated a legal citation | TechCrunch
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12:37 PM PDT · May 15, 2025
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.
Claude hallucinated the citation with “an inaccurate title and inaccurate authors,” Anthropic says in the filing, first reported by Bloomberg. Anthropic’s lawyers explain that their “manual cita...
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