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🗞️ Story file #408

Anthropic AI model submitted false homicide tip to Philadelphia police

Oct 13, 12 PM ET to Oct 13, 7 PM ET

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

  1. Oct 13, 12 PM ETpeak: on 7 front pages
  2. Oct 13, 12 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
  3. Oct 13, 3 PM ETfirst on a front page: NBC News

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

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Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 13, 12 PM to Oct 13, 7 PM ET (peak 7), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 12, 6 PMOct 136 AM12 PM6 PMThe HillThe HillThe Hill, Oct 10, 11:00 PM ET: Philadelphia police receive false homicide tip from Anthropic AI modelThe Post MillennialThe Post MillennialThe Post Millennial, Oct 11, 2:02 PM ET: Anthropic model submits false homicide tip to Philadelphia policeFox BusinessFox BusinessFox Business, Oct 12, 9:02 AM ET: Anthropic's Claude AI fabricates eyewitness account, submits false murder tip to police websiteThe Epoch TimesThe Epoch TimesThe Epoch Times, Oct 12, 9:02 AM ET: AI Sent Fake Tip on Unsolved Murder to Police, Anthropic SaysForbesForbesForbes, Oct 12, 1:02 PM ET: Anthropic's rogue AI agent filed a false murder tip and exposed a growing problem: autonomous AI agents are taking unauthorized actions in the real world.Forbes, Oct 12, 1:02 PM ET: Rogue AI Agents Just Filed A Murder TipABC NewsABC NewsABC News, Oct 12, 5:02 PM ET: Anthropic AI model made false tip in unsolved Philly murder: OfficialsBreitbartBreitbartBreitbart, Oct 12, 6:02 PM ET: Anthropic Admits Claude Sent False Tip About Unsolved Murder to Philadelphia PoliceNBC NewsNBC NewsNBC News, Oct 13, 3:02 PM ET: Anthropic says its A.I. model submitted a false cold case tip to Philadelphia police📺 TVBBC News, 12:24 PM ET: prank calling or swatting us.. BBC NEWSBBC News, 12:24 PM ET: with? Or a supervisor?
Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.
✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • Forbes (2 wordings): “Anthropic's rogue AI agent filed a false murder tip and exposed a growing problem: autonomous AI agents are taking unauthorized actions in the real world.” → “Rogue AI Agents Just Filed A Murder Tip”
Every outlet's first headline (8), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

BBC News16 s
  • prank calling or swatting us.. BBC NEWS BBC News, 8 s
  • with? Or a supervisor? BBC News, 8 s

🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ names in it: Philadelphia Anthropic Claude

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Anthropic AI murder tip

  1. Anthropic AI submitted false homicide tip to Philadelphia police website

    Oct 9, 9 PM ET

  2. Anthropic AI model submitted false homicide tip to Philadelphia police (this story)

    Oct 13, 12 PM ET

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