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Pro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 hours ago

Anthropic apologizes after one of its expert witnesses cited a fake article hallucinated by Claude in the company's legal battle with music publishers

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Anthropic apologizes after one of its expert witnesses cited a fake article hallucinated by Claude in the company's legal battle with music publishers

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Pro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 hours ago
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Anthropic’s attorney from Latham: fictitious source was “an honest mistake” due to Latham’s using Claude to format the citations.
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Ivana Dukanovic, an associate from Latham & Watkins, the attorney for Anthropic in the lawsuit filed by Concord Music, is taking the blame for the erroneous citation of an article that does not…
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    This should be cause for contempt. This isn’t much worse, IMO, than a legal briefing mentioning, “as affirmed in the case of Pee-pee v.s Poo-poo.” They’re basically taking a shit on the process by not verifying their arguments.

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      https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/dont-watermark-your-legal-pdfs-with-purple-dragons-in-suits/

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        Being a model citizen and a person of taste, you probably don’t need this reminder, but some others do: Federal judges do not like it when lawyers electronically watermark every page of their legal PDFs with a gigantic image—purchased for $20 online—of a purple dragon wearing a suit and tie. Not even if your firm’s name is “Dragon Lawyers.”

        Lmao

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          Lmao one of the pages on their website lists a few events at 123 Legal Ave, Suite 100, City, State, 12345. I’m starting to get the feeling these people don’t take their job very seriously.

          The “divorce” link just leads to “divorce”. Not “https://shittysite/divorce“. Just,” divorce".

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