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UK Police AI Crime Tool Unreliable; Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Test Chatbots

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UK police have developed an extensive AI-powered crime prediction system, but the investigation revealed that some of its outputs were unreliable. Simultaneously, Meta contractors posed as teenagers to probe rival chatbots, including Gemini and ChatGPT, on sensitive topics like suicide, sex, and drugs to assess their safety responses. AI

IMPACT AI systems are being deployed in sensitive areas like crime prediction and content moderation, raising questions about reliability and ethical testing practices.

RANK_REASON The cluster covers the deployment of AI in law enforcement and the testing of AI chatbots, which falls under AI-adjacent tools and products rather than core AI releases or research.

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UK Police AI Crime Tool Unreliable; Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Test Chatbots

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    # British # Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted As # UK police embrace the # AI revolution, a WIRED investigatio

    # British # Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted As # UK police embrace the # AI revolution, a WIRED investigation reveals the messy inside story of one region’s experiment with predictive analytics. # britain # security # privacy ht…

    LINKS wired.com/…/british-police-built-a-sprawl…
  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    # Meta # Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival # Chatbots About # Suicide , # Sex , and # Drugs Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta prete

    # Meta # Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival # Chatbots About # Suicide , # Sex , and # Drugs Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta pretended to be kids in order to see how other chatbots like # Gemini and # ChatGPT would respond to high-risk subjects, WIRE…

    LINKS wired.com/…/meta-contractors-pretending-t…

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