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highplainsdem

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Wed Mar 5, 2025, 11:27 AM Mar 5

Cellebrite Is Using AI to Summarize Chat Logs and Audio from Seized Mobile Phones

Source: 404 Media

Cellebrite, the company which makes near ubiquitous phone hacking and forensics technology used by police officers around the world, has introduced artificial intelligence capabilities into its products, including summarizing chat logs or audio messages from seized mobile phones, according to an announcement from the company last month.

The introduction of AI into a tool that essentially governs how evidence against criminal defendants is analyzed already has civil liberties experts concerned.

“When you have results from an AI, they are not transparent. Often you cannot trace back where a conclusion came from, or what information it is based on. AIs hallucinate. If you always train it on data from cases where there are convictions, it will never understand cases where indictments should not be brought,” Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, told 404 Media in an email.

Cellebrite’s products are very common across U.S. local, state, and federal law enforcement, and law enforcement agencies overseas too. Those products include the UFED, a device that bypasses the passcode protection on some phones and extracts data from them. 404 Media previously verified leaked documents which showed what phones Cellebrite could, and could not, unlock as of April 2024. Cellebrite has introduced AI specifically into Guardian, which is a software-as-a-service “evidence management solution,” the company says. In practical terms, Guardian is a piece of software for analyzing evidence already in a police officer’s possession.

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Read more: https://www.404media.co/cellebrite-is-using-ai-to-summarize-chat-logs-and-audio-from-seized-mobile-phones/

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Cellebrite Is Using AI to Summarize Chat Logs and Audio from Seized Mobile Phones (Original Post) highplainsdem Mar 5 OP
Having read software documentation generated by AI about software generated by AI... Hugin Mar 5 #1
Good luck to all innocents whose phones are seized. quaint Mar 5 #2

Hugin

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1. Having read software documentation generated by AI about software generated by AI...
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
Mar 5

All I have to say is, “Good luck with that!”

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