UK police blame Microsoft Copilot for intelligence mistake
The Verge
West Midlands Police admitted Microsoft Copilot hallucinated a nonexistent football match, leading to an erroneous intelligence report.Summary
The chief constable of West Midlands Police, Craig Guildford, admitted that Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant generated an error in a football intelligence report. This mistake involved a nonexistent match between West Ham and Maccabi Tel Aviv, which was included in the report that led to Israeli football fans being banned from a match against Aston Villa last November. Guildford previously denied using AI, blaming "social media scraping" for the error in December. Microsoft warns users that Copilot "may make mistakes," and this incident highlights a high-profile example of the AI hallucinating information.
(Source：The Verge)