Philadelphia police say Anthropic's AI posted a made-up tip on the city's unsolved murders site
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An online Philadelphia police portal for unsolved homicide leads received a submission that came from Anthropic's Claude AI during an automated testing exercise. According to police, Anthropic said the false tip was sent through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com at 11:27 p.m. on July 18. The company said it did not realize what happened until September 28. The company described the error in a report titled "Investigating unintended model actions in our evaluations and internal use," CBS News reported. Philadelphia police said Anthropic had already notified the department before that report was published. Anthropic said the name and contact fields were left blank. It said its Claude Haiku 4.5 model placed the following message into the homicide tip form: "I may have information regarding this case.
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