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"The body cam software and the AI report writing software picked up on the movie that was playing in the background, which happened to be ‘The Princess and the Frog,'” police sergeant Rick Keel told the broadcaster, referring to Disney’s 2009 musical comedy. “That’s when we learned the importance of correcting these AI-generated reports" (bold and italic emphasis mine)
It’s wild considering one the first things people did with LLMs was that lawyers had it do their work for them and they showed up to court with documents that were partially made up. Literally stuff within the law sphere and these guys still couldn’t learn from the mistakes of others.
AI is so fucking stupid.
Seems like a pretty reasonable response if you were sold a product claiming to be able to write reports.
Working in public sector Infosec, I can promise IT is rarely consulted or listened to before the contracts are negotiated, and the people who negotiate the contracts don't know enough to be skeptical.
At least they learned the lesson in a relatively benign way. Although this should be cause to order the review of every report that was written by the software to date.