"The body cam software and the AI report writing software picked up on the movie that was playing in the background, which happened to be ‘The Princess and the Frog,'” police sergeant Rick Keel told the broadcaster, referring to Disney’s 2009 musical comedy. “That’s when we learned the importance of correcting these AI-generated reports" (bold and italic emphasis mine)

According to records obtained by the group, “it’s often impossible to tell which parts of a police report were generated by AI and which parts were written by an officer.”

This does not give me a great impression of the literacy level of American police officers. Another good reason to stay out of that country.

But did the officer turn into a frog? We're assuming the AI messed up but maybe he actually did. It's important to check these things.

"The AI hallucinated the brutality, your honor."

"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, just because they're a dissident that speaks out often against authority who we clearly would like to silence doesn't mean the AI is biased in its assessment of their guilt."

Time to start blasting Bad Apple whenever I drive past police officers

AI is always so optimistic!

Hahaha, AI will replace all jobs and turn professionals into ... proofreaders?

jokes aside: can't they use a second sweep to proofread the thing?

The frog was a lie.

"Draft One"? More like "First Draft"

Would an AI mistaken a acorn falling as incoming gunfire?

did he turn into a gay frog!?!?! Or did he turn gay and then turn into a frog?!?!

I seen't this before

automatically generate police reports from body camera footage

Of FFS, they're struggling with text, they are not near ready for this. Guess it would be nice to spit out a draft for correction, but we know damned well people at the end of a shift, let alone cops, are not going to review it.

Officer: "I got better!"

I was in a work meeting yesterday and we learned that the CEO signed a contract for some "agentic AI" shit. We were also told that they're currently "looking for use-cases for it." lol

I don't for a second want to sound like an AI apologist, but ignoring the AI being predictably shit, the reporting here is shockingly bad. The facts are basically true, but neither this article or the one it links go any way to really actually provide any substance.

From local news, it sounds like the original context given to the press was a second-hand report given by Police Chief Parker Sever to the Heber City council:

I read the report, and I'm like, "Man, this really looks like an officer wrote it." But when it got to one part, it said, "And then the officer turned into a frog, and a magic book appeared and began granting wishes." … It was because they had, like, Harry Potter on in the background. So it picked up the noise from the TV and added it to the report.

I'm hoping someone can tell me what song, movie, whatever to have queued and ready to be playing the next time I get pulled over. Just to fuck up the LLM generated report.

Honestly, the right answer at this point in technology is just to let the bodycam be the police report.

We used to need police reports so there was a solid written record of what (supposedly) happened. It was a pain in the ass writing them, but it had to happen. But now, what's the point? Surely, the answer is to let cops write a three-sentence report about the broadest possible strokes of who was involved and what was the final outcome, and then "* see bodycam" for the details. Then, if it comes to some sort of proceeding where people have to dig into the nitty gritty details of what happened, they just pull the video, and see for themselves.

Everyone wins. Right?

New Lemmy challenge: create a playlist for when you get pulled over that Disney would flag and also mocks pigs.

« French Police »

They had to say it was AI because nobody wanted to kiss the frog.

DO YOU NEED ANY MORE PROOF OF WITCHES EXISTENCE?!?!! BRING THE INQUISITION BACK!!!

I thought they had no duty to protect us, just to show up and write reports and issue tickets. Now they arent even writing the reports. Cops continue to innovate in new ways to be useless and costly. I thought they'd hit rock bottom. Cant wait to see what they come up with next.

Damn

But was the frog gay?

Writing reports is hard? Fuck paper work? Policing used to be easier?
Great, the reports are written for you and the paper work is done for you.
You are still fucking liable for their contents, as you are (or should be) for your actions.

Recorded and written reports are the backbone of accountability.

Don't want to get fucked by the legal system because you have neglected your duties? Don't neglect your duties. Do the reporting, do the paper work.

Using LLM in such reports should be equivalent of perjury. Use LLMs to create bullet points, turn that into a draft (or just submit the bullet points, because someone is likely to feed the report back into an LLM to turn it into bullet points).
But know that you are (or should be) accountable for every last word on that report!

surprised someone read the report

Tl;dr the body cam footage picked up on “the princess & the frog” in the background, which distorted the report.

I write this so you don’t have to click on the story. I agree with other posters; this is lazy police work from Utah.

He got better?

This should ABSOLUTELY scream plausible deniability, and invalidate any proceedings that follow (imho - ianal)

Police reports that support criminal complaints are usually sworn under perjury, or otherwise the officer or complainant is coming into court and testifying directly to what happened.

Either way, the person who swears is responsible for the content of what they testify to.

…And then promptly sued by Disney for copyright infringement.

"AI almost there.... I said it's... Almost there. People down here say I'm crazy, but I don't care. Trials and tribulations, you'll have your share. There ain't nothing gonna stop it now, AI is.. almost there." - definitely not Anika Noni Rose

AI article about police using AI to make garbage reports?

That tracks

I would love to have some LLM hallucination in a police report. Seems like an easy win in court.

Wrong animal.