GoKawiilClearview AI Tests InquiryIQ, an Automated Profile-Builder for Police Investigators
Clearview AI, known for scraping billions of photos for facial recognition, is developing an experimental tool called InquiryIQ that would let police feed in a suspect's name and details to automatically scour the web for their employer, aliases, associates, and physical traits. The tool has reportedly tested a model from SpaceXAI, the company behind Grok, and its interface suggests entering demographic data like race and gender helps it make 'smarter decisions.' Clearview has not released InquiryIQ publicly and declined to explain how such inputs affect its outputs.
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By automating what once took investigators days of manual digging, InquiryIQ could make deep online surveillance of ordinary people cheap and routine, not just reserved for serious crimes. Using an AI model tied to Grok—criticized for biased and extreme outputs—to help build law-enforcement dossiers raises fresh concerns about embedded racial or demographic bias in policing tools, especially since generative AI outputs can vary unpredictably and be hard to audit after the fact.
- Clearview AI is testing InquiryIQ, a tool that builds detailed personal profiles for police from initial facial-recognition leads.
- The tool has used a model from SpaceXAI (Grok's parent company) and asks for race and gender to refine its searches.
- Experts warn such automation could enable broader, cheaper police fishing expeditions with inconsistent, hard-to-audit results.
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