US cops say ignore AI-generated story of shooting that never happened

Police note the story has no byline and includes a notice that artificial intelligence tools were used to author the piece that 'may contain errors.' According to police, the story itself is an error. — Photo by Michael Förtsch on Unsplash

NEW YORK: In the US, New Jersey’s Bridgeton Police Department is asking the public to ignore an inflammatory story about a Christmas Day shooting that never actually happened.

"This ‘article’ is circulating social media and was brought to BPD’s attention,” cops wrote on Facebook on Wednesday. "It is entirely false. Nothing even similar to this story occurred on or around Christmas, or even in recent memory for the area they described.”