Anthropic's Claude faked a legal citation. A lawyer had to clean it up

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In a copyright lawsuit over Anthropic's use of music lyrics, the company's legal team used its AI assistant, Claude, to help draft a citation in an expert report.
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Claude generated "an inaccurate title and incorrect authors" in a legal citation, per…

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