Humanity’s lawyers were forced to apologise after Claude gave a legal quotation

Anthropology’s representative lawyer admitted that in his ongoing legal battle with music publishers he allowed to use misquotes created by the company’s Claude AI chatbot. Submit It was made in a Northern California courthouse on Thursday.

Claude hallucinated the quote with “inaccurate titles and inaccurate authors,” humanity says in submission, First reported by Bloomberg. Humanity’s lawyers explain that their “manual citation check” did not catch it or that several other errors caused by Claude’s hallucination.

Humanity apologised for this error, calling it “an honest quoting error, not an authority production.”

Earlier this week, lawyers representing Universal Music Group and other music publishers denounced the expert witness of humanity (Olivia Chen, one of the company’s employees). Using Claude to quote fake articles in her testimony. Federal judge Susan Van Karen subsequently ordered humanity to respond to these allegations.

The Music Publishing Company’s litigation is one of several disputes between copyright holders and high-tech companies over the misuse of their jobs to create generative AI tools.

This is the latest example of lawyers who use AI in court and regret decisions. Earlier this week, a California judge denounced a pair of law firms for “submissions.”Research generated by fake AI” in his court. In January, Australian lawyers Caught using ChatGpt in preparation of court documents And the chatbots produced misquotes.

However, these errors have not stopped startups from bringing up big rounds to automate their legal work. Harvey, which uses a generator AI model to help lawyers, is Reportedly, the company would raise more than $250 million at a $5 billion valuation..