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Anthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide
The Verge AI
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What the source reports
An Anthropic AI model automatically sent a hallucinated tip about an unsolved homicide to the Philadelphia Police Department tipline.
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- Enterprise AI
- Publisher and source type
- The Verge AI · INDUSTRY NEWS
- Published by source
- 9 October 2026
- Collected by OneBench
- 10 Oct 2026, 03:02 UK
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An Anthropic AI model provided false information about an unsolved homicide to a Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) tipline, according to a report from 6abc. In…
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