Global Intelligence claims its Cybercheck technology can help cops find key evidence to nail a case. But a WIRED investigation reveals the smoking gun often appears far less solid.
Honestly it seems more sinister than that, Its a black box deliberately designed to be as obscure about its methods as possible that can produce corroborating ‘evidence’ on demand in a way that’s deliberately un-verifiable but wrapped in some very authorotive sounding technobabble.
Parallel construction requires real evidence though. This company just seems to fabricate evidence to confirm police hypothesises. I think what happens is: Police ask “was this person there at that time on that day”, the company conjures up a report that the person’s mystical digital profile pinged a wireless printer at that place at roughly the right time, but also at a second other time for a tiny bit of credibility (but by only changing the date of the timestamp, which actually makes it more suspect). People go search for that printer, and then there never was a printer.
And given that the only thing that external parties saw, was less than a 1000 lines of code for automatic searches and none for interpretation, it might not even be automated, but just a human pasting together reports. A human pretending to be ai.
This is outsourced automated parallel construction.
Honestly it seems more sinister than that, Its a black box deliberately designed to be as obscure about its methods as possible that can produce corroborating ‘evidence’ on demand in a way that’s deliberately un-verifiable but wrapped in some very authorotive sounding technobabble.
Parallel construction requires real evidence though. This company just seems to fabricate evidence to confirm police hypothesises. I think what happens is: Police ask “was this person there at that time on that day”, the company conjures up a report that the person’s mystical digital profile pinged a wireless printer at that place at roughly the right time, but also at a second other time for a tiny bit of credibility (but by only changing the date of the timestamp, which actually makes it more suspect). People go search for that printer, and then there never was a printer.
And given that the only thing that external parties saw, was less than a 1000 lines of code for automatic searches and none for interpretation, it might not even be automated, but just a human pasting together reports. A human pretending to be ai.
I’d call it outsourced fabrication of evidence.