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AI is beginning to reshape criminal cases, especially through sophisticated fraud and voice impersonation scams. As the technology becomes more convincing, traditional warning signs can be harder to recognize.
So in what ways, now this is an interesting angle, in what ways has AI changed the type of criminal cases your office investigates?
SPEAKER_00
This is one area that I think criminals actually are are behind on.
SPEAKER_01
Okay. Really. Okay.
SPEAKER_00
Because a chatbot really is not going to line up a drug trade for you, if you think about it. Really, what they do is they help sharpen what you want to say or look for. That's that's how I found chatbots to be.
SPEAKER_01
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00
Now, organizationally, they can probably help you with a business plan or um help you with a distribution network or something like that. But or whatever the logistical concern, if you're a really big sort of drug dealer. But um where we've seen AI come into play more, uh, which is sort of unsurprising, I guess, has been in some of the fraudulent activities. Now, you get a call, or your grandpa, you know, one of your grandparents get a call at home and that says, you know, this is the county sheriff or the deputy sheriff, and uh you owe five hundred dollars in taxes that you haven't paid yet. Okay. If I make that call, your grandparents are gonna say, Who that you know, who is this? Right. But if you know, we're getting to a point where, and I actually heard a story on this, where somebody got, you know, had for I think $10,000 because they had an AI voice that sounded perfectly in tone with wherever the person was from, with that dialect, you know, and and friendly and and and all of these things that otherwise, you know, you you would be a red flag to say this is a fraud.
SPEAKER_01
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00
So that's the it's the manipulation that we're starting to see in the fraud cases, I think. Okay. Um, that's interesting. Now, I will say we have seen some court filings. We do not do this in our office, but we have seen some court filings. They had a tinge of AI in them, I think. But uh, you know, of course, we don't we don't do that because there's too many, you know, they have AI has what they call hallucinations, as they say. So they'll cite the wrong case or something like that. I don't want to be in the room when one of our judges find some of those mistakes.
