Philadelphia police receive false homicide tip from AI model in testing error
Philadelphia police disclosed that an AI model from the company Anthropic generated and submitted a false homicide tip to the department's PhillyUnsolvedMurders website, which was set up to collect tips from the public on unsolved cases.
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A Philadelphia Police Department tip line received incorrect information submitted by an artificial intelligence system on July 18, but the company behind the model did not discover the error until September 28.
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