Deny, deny, admit: UK police used Copilot AI “hallucination” when banning football fans

But Guildford admitted this week that this explanation was, in fact, nonsense. As he admitted in a letter dated January 12, “I [recently] “I learned that the incorrect result in relation to the West Ham vs Maccabi Tel Aviv match occurred as a result of the use of Microsoft Company Pilot.”

He had no intention of deceiving anyone, he said, “By Friday afternoon, [I] It was understood that the West Ham match was only identified through the use of Google.

This has made a bad situation even worse. Today in the House of Commons Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood gave a lengthy statement on the case in which she threw Guildford under the bus and stomped on him five or six times.

Mahmood attributed the ban to “confirmation bias” by the police. He said that the Amsterdam stories he used were “exaggerated or simply false.” And he highlighted the fact that Guildford had claimed that “AI tools were not used to produce intelligence reports,” but now attributed “AI hallucinations.”

The whole thing, he said, was a “failure of leadership” and Guildford “no longer had confidence in me”.

This last point was something everyone in the UK seemed to agree on. The Conservatives want Guildford to also go and party leaders are demanding his resignation. MP Nick Timothy has been discussing the issue for several days, particularly the fact that hallucination-prone AI tools are being used to make security decisions.

“More details on the misuse of AI by police,” he wrote today. “They didn’t just deny it to the Home Affairs Committee. They also denied it in FOI requests. They said they had no AI policy. So officials are using a new, untrusted technology for sensitive purposes without training or regulations.”