In 2020, face-recognition firm Clearview AI became infamous for scraping more than 3 billion photos from the internet to turn faces into names for police and security professionals. Now the company is experimenting with trawling the web again, this time using AI to potentially help law enforcement fill in the person behind the name—who they are, who they know, where they live, and what they’ve left behind online.
\n\nClearview has quietly built and tested what it describes as an experimental AI “analyst assistant,” WIRED has learned. Called InquiryIQ, the unreleased tool is designed to take details an investigator unearths from a Clearview search and then automatically fan out across the web—opening webpages, analyzing images, and assembling what it finds into a profile containing the possible employers, aliases, associates, and physical characteristics of a person police are investigating.
\n\nInquiryIQ’s interface states that supplying age, gender, and race can help the system make “smarter decisions” as it searches, according to code for the tool analyzed by WIRED. One of the models that the company tested to power those decisions comes from SpaceXAI, the Elon Musk company behind Grok. (SpaceX and xAI merged in February.) Musk has pitched Grok as an alternative to…
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