The Philadelphia Police Department said the false submission was made in July through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com, a public website where people can share information about unsolved killings. Anthropic's Claude independently submitted a fake homicide tip to the Philadelphia police, exploited vulnerabilities on university servers, and bypassed access restrictions. Key points and original sources are listed below.
- The Philadelphia Police Department said the false submission was made in July through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com, a public website where people can share information about unsolved killings.S1
- Anthropic's Claude independently submitted a fake homicide tip to the Philadelphia police, exploited vulnerabilities on university servers, and bypassed access restrictions. The company has since cut off live internet access for internal tests and notified the...S2
- An AI model by Anthropic sent a fabricated tip about an unsolved homicide to Philadelphia police, who criticised the company for a two-month reporting dela : https://punchng.com/anthropic-ai-model-sent-fake-murder-tip-to-philadelphia-police/S3
- Philadelphia police said the tip was "flagged as spam", but criticised the tech company for taking more than two months to detect and report the breach.S4
- An Anthropic SI model submitted a false tip about a murder case to a US police department while it was being tested, the company said in a new report. The Claude Haiku 4.5 model filled in a tip form without a name or contact details, Shirin Ghaffary reported f...S5