{"id":7323,"date":"2025-12-10T19:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/police-chatpgt-composite-sketch\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T19:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:15:10","slug":"police-chatpgt-composite-sketch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/police-chatpgt-composite-sketch\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Admit They\u2019re Using ChatGPT to Generate \u201cSketches\u201d of Suspects"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AI is no longer just identifying suspected criminals from behind a camera<\/a>; now it\u2019s rendering photorealistic images of their mugs for cops to blast out on social media.<\/p>\n

Enter ChatGPT, the latest member of the Goodyear Police Department, located on the outskirts of Phoenix. New reporting by the Washington Post<\/em> revealed<\/a> that Goodyear cops are using the generative AI tool to pop out photos of suspects in place of pen-and-paper police sketches.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are hopeful that these new techniques and AI technology will assist in solving more complex cases in the future, here in Arizona and around the country,\u201d the Goodyear PD wrote on its social media account when it debuted its first profile. That AI image was meant to help locate a suspect in a kidnapping case, which the department said resulted in a huge influx of tips.<\/p>\n

Notably, the AI photos haven\u2019t led to any arrests.<\/p>\n

But what\u2019s odd about the initiative is the decision behind it. Speaking to WaPo<\/em>, Mike Bonasera, the sketch artist for the Goodyear PD, said it has a lot to do with social media engagement. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re now in a day and age where if we post a pencil drawing, most people are not going to acknowledge it,\u201d the sketch artist admitted. Basically, the Goodyear PD believes that local residents, especially the younger crowd, are much more likely to interact with a hyper-realistic AI rendering. <\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are so visual, and that\u2019s why this works,\u201d Bonasera said.<\/p>\n

The Goodyear PD insists their AI renderings aren\u2019t \u201cAI fabrications.\u201d This, they say, is because the AI images begin as traditional composite drawings \u2014 which are already unreliable<\/a> \u2014 before they feed them into ChatGPT.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a dicey contention. When an image generator like ChatGPT spits out a picture of a person, it\u2019s drawing on a huge database of photos of real people. This means whatever biases<\/a> were present in the collection of photos \u2014 for example, the ratio of white to Black faces<\/a> \u2014 will show up in the final image.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was something we saw early on with some of these generators,\u201d Bryan Schwartz, a law professor at the University of Arizona told WaPo<\/em>. \u201cThat they were really good at creating white faces and not as good at creating some of other races.\u201d<\/p>\n

When we\u2019re talking about creating images of real people, that kind of system-wide bias<\/a> can have devastating results \u2014 especially when cops refuse to acknowledge it. Police departments relying on AI facial recognition<\/a> to track down suspects, for example, have already led to numerous false arrests in cities including Detroit<\/a>, New York<\/a>, and Atlanta<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Luckily, Goodyear seems to be the only police department in the US using AI to blast biased composites of suspects, or at least admitting to it. Unfortunately, though, cops love their tech<\/a> \u2014 meaning it might just be a matter of time before we see more of this nationwide.<\/p>\n

More on policing: <\/strong>Police Use Busted Facial Recognition System, Arrest Random Man and Accuse Him of Horrible Crime<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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The post Police Admit They\u2019re Using ChatGPT to Generate \u201cSketches\u201d of Suspects<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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