According to Deep Tide TechFlow, Anthropic has responded to the incorrect citation made by its AI assistant Claude in legal documents, stating that it was an embarrassing and unintentional mistake. In a copyright lawsuit by a music publisher, the documents submitted by Anthropic data scientist Olivia Chen were accused of being completely fabricated.
Anthropic's defense attorney Ivana Dukanovic stated that Claude added incorrect titles and author information when formatting legal citations. The company performed a manual citation check and corrected the wrong volume and page numbers, but the wording errors went unnoticed.