Prosecutors in Washington State Warn Police: Don't Use Gen AI to Write Reports

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Unless you want your police reports inadmissible as evidence. If you want that go ahead.

Current general AI models cannot tell accurately if a soccer ball went in a goal or missed. Still a way to go for accurate police reports.

How would you expect a gen AI to know what actually happened in any situation?

By analyzing a video or picture (or whatever other sensor data you give it). It is a pretty straightforward classification problem, and imagine classification has been a major portion of ML research for decades.

There is no single video or audio that covers the life of a call, and likely never will be?

Additionally, body cams have extremely limited fields of view compared to humans. They’re fine for covering what is going on in the immediate vicinity, but useless for describing overall context.

That said, cops are notoriously terrible report writers, so meh.

Not generative AI, General AI.

Is this a reference to a specific incident or just a general claim?

It is a reference to specific testing of general models. Specific models can probably do this pretty easily, but genearl vision models acting on video still struggle. Not sure why this is controversial or down voted. Go and test it for yourself.

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