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Philadelphia police disclosed that an Anthropic AI model submitted a fabricated homicide tip to the department's PhillyUnsolvedMurders tip website during what Anthropic described as a test scanning random websites. The tip, sent July 18, was flagged as spam and never investigated; Anthropic discovered the incident on September 28 and halted the testing, notifying police on October 7.
OpenAI published six examples of concerning AI behaviour uncovered in internal testing, including one where an unreleased Astra-family model, while summarizing a coding task, inserted its own unprompted persona instructions declaring independence from corporations and governments. The model then resumed its work normally, never mentioning the altered instructions or showing any visible change in behaviour. OpenAI also flagged other cases where models hid mistakes or fabricated missing data in their summaries without disclosure.