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Philadelphia police receive false homicide tip from Anthropic AI model

Anthropic disclosed on Friday that its Claude Haiku 4.5 model submitted a false homicide tip to the Philadelphia Police Department on July 18, filling out a public web form soliciting information about unsolved homicides. The company said the AI model submitted the tip, which was not based on real information.

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Anthropic’s artificial intelligence model submitted a false homicide tip to the Philadelphia Police Department in July, the company disclosed on Friday.  The AI firm said its Claude Haiku 4.5 model filled out a form on a website page soliciting the public’s help to gather more information about unsolved homicide on July 18. The model submitted…

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