UK police blame Microsoft Copilot for intelligence mistake

UK police blame Microsoft Copilot for intelligence mistake

The chief constable of one of Britain’s largest police forces has admitted that Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant made a mistake in a football (soccer) intelligence report. The report, which led to Israeli football fans being banned from a match last year, included a non-existent match between West Ham and Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Copilot hallucinated the game and West Midlands Police included the error in its intelligence report. “On Friday afternoon I became aware that the erroneous result concerning the West Ham v Maccabi Tel Aviv match arose as result of a use of Microsoft Co Pilot [sic],” says Craig Guildford, chief constable of West Midlands …

