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West Midlands Police Chief Constable Craig Guildford retired after his force used fabricated information from Microsoft Copilot to ban Israeli football fans from a match. The AI tool generated false reports about a non-existent match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and West Ham. Guildford initially told Parliament that officers didn't use AI, but later discovered and admitted they had used Copilot. This incident joins other cases where generative AI has produced fictional legal cases and references that were mistakenly used in official decisions.

West Midlands copper chief cops it after Copilot copped out