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UK police blame Microsoft Copilot for intelligence mistake (www.theverge.com)
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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 23 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Guildford previously denied in December that the West Midlands Police had used AI to prepare the report, blaming “social media scraping” for the error.

lol, as if that was better (assuming they took all findings at face value).

We’ve reached out to Microsoft to comment on why Copilot made up a football match that never existed, but the company didn’t respond in time for publication.

I'd love to hear their response, but the real answer is obvious: "it's a black box. We have no idea what it's doing. Yes, we unleashed that on the world. Not sorry though, we just have to keep hoping that it sorts itself out."