Police Raise Eyebrows After Using ChatGPT to Create Composite Sketches of Suspects: 'No One Knows How [It] Works'

Arizona Cops Are Now Using AI-Generated 'Mugshots' to Sketch Crime Suspects

A police department in a suburb of Phoenix has used ChatGPT twice this year to generate images of crime suspects.

Police raise eyebrows after using ChatGPT to create composite sketches of suspects: 'No one knows how [it] works'

As the presence of artificial intelligence in everyday life increases, so too do novel use cases. And, as the Washington Post reported, that has extended to police sketches. According to the Post, the Goodyear Police Department in Goodyear, Arizona, turned to AI during an investigation into a shooting that occurred in November. The department "released an apparent mug shot of their suspect," with one arguably dystopian caveat. "This AI-generated…

Police Admit They're Using ChatGPT to Generate "Sketches" of Suspects

AI is no longer just identifying suspected criminals from behind a camera; now it’s rendering photorealistic images of their mugs for cops to blast out on social media. Enter ChatGPT, the latest member of the Goodyear Police Department, located on the outskirts of Phoenix. New reporting by the Washington Post revealed that Goodyear cops are using the generative AI tool to pop out photos of suspects in place of pen-and-paper police sketches. “We …