You ask it to do the things that human analysts already currently do with the vast amounts of text, image, and video data they collect but at an unprecedented scale. You can extract what people are talking about, identify people, weapons, or objects in images, extract addresses, license plate numbers, or other identifying references. It can probably even detect when people are using coded language that won’t trigger explicit keywords.

OpenAI is an AI company, it’s literally in the name. Even currently they use more than LLMs, they use other transformers and related technology in the field of AI.