AI Incident Database: Citation Errors in Concord Music v. Anthropic Attributed to Claude AI Use by Defense Counsel
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.
AI Incident Database · Incident 1074Operator lens (medium): inspect D2 (output validation), D6 (autonomy oversight).
Event summary
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.
Linked entities
- Anthropic
vendor | 70%
- judicial-integrity
organisation | 70%
- ivana-dukanovic
organisation | 70%
- brittany-n.-lovejoy
organisation | 70%
- joseph-r.-wetzel
organisation | 70%
- andrew-m.-gass
organisation | 70%
- allison-l.-stillman
organisation | 70%
- sarang-v.-damle
organisation | 70%
- sara-e.-sampoli
organisation | 70%
- rachel-s.-horn
organisation | 70%
- latham-and-watkins-llp
organisation | 70%
- judicial-system
organisation | 70%
Related graph edges
| Edge | Type | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| ent-vendor-anthropic to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-anthropic to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-anthropic to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-anthropic to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-anthropic to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-anthropic to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-anthropic to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-anthropic to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-anthropic to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-anthropic to ent-psf-d7 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-anthropic to ent-psf-d7 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-anthropic to ent-psf-d7 | maps to | 60% |