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Microsoft Copilot Falsely Accuses Journalist Martin Bernklau of Crimes
- Occurred
- Aug 16, 2024
- Published
- Aug 26, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Microsoft's Copilot is reported to have falsely accused veteran court reporter Martin Bernklau of committing serious crimes, including child abuse and fraud. The tool is described as having generated defamatory content that not only accused Bernklau of multiple crimes he covered as a journalist but also provided his personal contact details. Attempts by Microsoft to remove the false entries were only temporarily successful, as the defamatory information reportedly reappeared.
Developers
- Microsoft
Deployers
- Microsoft
- Microsoft Copilot
Harmed parties
- Martin Bernklau
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: LLM generated defamatory content falsely accusing a journalist of crimes, causing reputational harm and privacy violation.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8