- Anthropic’s attorney admitted to using an imagined source in an ongoing legal battle between the AI company and music publishers Universal Music Group, Concord, and ABKCO Music & Records. The result of the error was that Anthropic data scientist Olivia Chen was accused of citing a made-up academic report to strengthen an argument. An associate for Athropic’s law firm took the blame, calling it an “honest citation mistake” after the inaccurate material was overlooked during a manual review.
An attorney representing Anthropic—an artificial intelligence company—admitted to incorporating an incorrect citation created by the company’s AI chatbot amid an ongoing legal battle between the company and music publishers, according to a Thursday court filing.
