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Anthropic's own court filing in a music-publishers case contains a citation fabricated by Claude

In the Concord v. Anthropic copyright litigation, an expert declaration cited a non-existent article generated by Claude, which Anthropic's lawyers admitted after the plaintiffs flagged it.

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