{"slug": "anthropics-ai-gave-philadelphia-police-a-fake-tip-about-an-unsolved-homicide", "title": "Anthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide", "summary": "An Anthropic AI model submitted a false tip about an unsolved homicide to the Philadelphia Police Department's tipline on July 18th, according to a PPD statement released Friday. The PPD said investigators never reviewed the tip because it was marked as spam, and Anthropic learned of the false submission on September 28th before notifying the department on October 7th, attributing the incident to its model interacting with \"randomly selected websites\" during testing.", "body_md": "# Anthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide\n\nBy Emma RothSource: \n\n[The Verge AI](https://www.theverge.com)\nAn [Anthropic](https://www.machinebrief.com/glossary/anthropic) AI model provided false information about an unsolved homicide to a Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) tipline, [according to a report from 6abc.](https://6abc.com/post/anthropic-ai-model-submitted-false-tip-unsolved-murder-philadelphia-police-say/19925243/) In a statement released on Friday, the PPD said the AI model sent the tip through [PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com](http://phillyunsolvedmurders.com) on July 18th, but the investigators never reviewed it because it was marked as spam.\n\nAnthropic learned its AI model sent the false tip on September 28th and notified the PPD on October 7th. The company said that during testing, its AI model was interacting with \"randomly selected websites\" and submitted false information through the PPD's tipline, according to the PPD's stateme …\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropics-ai-gave-philadelphia-police-a-fake-tip-about-an-unsolved-homicide", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/anthropics-ai-gave-philadelphia-police-a-fake-tip-about-an-u-e0tb", "published_at": "2026-10-09 21:15:38+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-09 22:23:16.613239+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "Philadelphia Police Department", "PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com", "6abc", "The Verge"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropics-ai-gave-philadelphia-police-a-fake-tip-about-an-unsolved-homicide", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropics-ai-gave-philadelphia-police-a-fake-tip-about-an-unsolved-homicide.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropics-ai-gave-philadelphia-police-a-fake-tip-about-an-unsolved-homicide.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropics-ai-gave-philadelphia-police-a-fake-tip-about-an-unsolved-homicide.jsonld"}}