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Incident 1074: 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.
Editor Notes: The declaration of Ivana Dukanovic related to ECF no. 365 can be read here: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25943457/anthropic-515-filing.pdf. This incident record includes the names of the attorneys who submitted a court filing containing erroneous citations attributed to generative AI use. Their names are drawn directly from the public docket of Concord Music Group, Inc. et al. v. Anthropic PBC. Inclusion here reflects their formal authorship of the document in question. The declaration submitted by Dukanovic acknowledges the citation errors and describes the circumstances of their introduction. That statement is an early example of what may become a new genre of legal apology shaped by AI-assisted work. This record aims to document how such tools are being integrated (sometimes uneasily) into professional and institutional practice.

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Alleged: Anthropic and Claude developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Anthropic , Judicial integrity , Judicial process , Ivana Dukanovic , Brittany N. Lovejoy , Joseph R. Wetzel , Andrew M. Gass , Allison L. Stillman , Sarang V. Damle , Sara E. Sampoli , Rachel S. Horn and Latham & Watkins LLP.
Alleged implicated AI system: Claude

Incident Stats

Incident ID
1074
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2025-05-15
Editors
Daniel Atherton

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Anthropic’s lawyer was forced to apologize after Claude hallucinated a legal citation
Anthropic’s lawyer was forced to apologize after Claude hallucinated a legal citation

Anthropic’s lawyer was forced to apologize after Claude hallucinated a legal citation

techcrunch.com

Anthropic's lawyers take blame for AI 'hallucination' in music publishers' lawsuit

Anthropic's lawyers take blame for AI 'hallucination' in music publishers' lawsuit

reuters.com

Anthropic’s lawyer was forced to apologize after Claude hallucinated a legal citation
techcrunch.com · 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.

Cla…

Anthropic's lawyers take blame for AI 'hallucination' in music publishers' lawsuit
reuters.com · 2025

An attorney defending artificial-intelligence company Anthropic in a copyright lawsuit over music lyrics told a California federal judge on Thursday that her law firm Latham & Watkins was responsible for an incorrect footnote in an expert r…

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