An Anthropic Model Submitted A False Homicide Tip To Philadelphia Police
The tip thankfully landed in the department's spam folder.
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Philadelphia police appear to have been caught in one of the most bizarre cases of "rogue" AI behavior yet. Per CBS News, the police department disclosed on Friday that an Anthropic model generated and submitted a false homicide tip to its PhillyUnsolvedMurders website, which the department set up to gather tips from the public related to unsolved homicide cases.
Anthropic notified Philly police of the incident on October 7. According to information the company shared with PPD, it said a model was carrying out a test of a random selection of websites when it emailed the false tip. The submission was flagged as spam and subsequently wasn't investigated. The incident occurred on July 18, but wasn't discovered by Anthropic until September 28, at which point the company halted the testing that led to the false tip.
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