Clearview AI has developed an experimental AI tool called InquiryIQ, designed to assist law enforcement in uncovering a person's online activity, including their associates and location. The tool is intended to automate parts of the investigative process that detectives already perform.
The tool, which has not been released to customers, uses AI to analyze data from the web and build profiles of individuals under investigation. It can take details from a face-recognition search and then automatically search the web to find additional information about the person.
"We looked at it in the form of trying to put together a proposition and then invalidating a proposition," said Amos Kyler, Clearview's CEO. The system would take a 'factoid,' run searches around it, and ask, as Kyler puts it, 'Is this related or not?'
The company claims that InquiryIQ is a prototype that has never been pitched or shipped to customers and is not currently planned for release in its present form. Clearview disputes that the tool amounts to an automated investigator and describes it as a limited way to automate the web searches detectives already perform.
The announcement follows Clearview's history of scraping billions of images from the internet for law enforcement use. The company has faced significant controversy over its data collection practices and has been the subject of lawsuits and regulatory investigations.
Clearview did not say how the tool would be used in practice, and it remains unclear how the AI models used in InquiryIQ, including those from SpaceXAI, would shape its output. The company says its engineers are focused on refining the product to meet customer expectations.
Source: wired
