AI-Generated Police Report States Utah Officer Was Turned Into a Frog
Heber City Police's AI tool Draft One misinterpreted bodycam audio influenced by a Disney movie, highlighting challenges in AI report accuracy and oversight during trial use.
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Police Wonder If AI Bodycam Reports Are Accurate After Model Transforms Officer Into A Frog
We’ve spent the better part of the last two years documenting the parade of attorneys firing off AI-muddled filings. It’s been a field day for bar disciplinary authorities and an endless source of content for us. But at the end of the day, lawyers confidently citing Martinez v. Maldonia Airways have — for the most part — been mostly caught and laughed at. Once lawyers are involved in a case, there are often opposing counsel and, more importantly…
The Future Is Here: AI-Generated Police Report Claims Officer Turned into Frog
In an embarrassing incident highlighting the pitfalls of relying on artificial intelligence in law enforcement, the police department in Heber City, Utah, was forced to explain why a police report generated by AI claimed a responding officer had transformed into a frog.
An AI-Generated Police Report Claimed a Cop Transformed Into a Frog
An AI system meant to streamline police paperwork ended up making things much more difficult. The AI allegedly believed in the magical, as it interpreted a routine Utah traffic stop as either an enchanting fairytale or a nightmarish horror of transmutation, depending on how you look at it. Earlier this month, software used by the Herber city Police Department in Utah generated a report claiming an officer had shape-shifted into a frog. AI system…
In which I defend AI
Don’t be too shocked, but I think AI does have some utility, despite the occasional hallucination. A Utah police department’s use of artificial intelligence led to a police report stating — falsely — that an officer had been transformed into a frog. The Heber City Police Department started using a pair of AI programs, Draft One and Code Four, to automatically generate police reports from body camera footage in December. A report generated by the…
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