An AI used by Utah’s Heber City Police Department wrote a report claiming one of its officers had transformed into a frog — and the culprit was a Disney movie.
The body camera software picked up audio from The Princess and the Frog playing in the background and the AI, doing its job a little too well, wrote it straight into the police report.
The department had just started testing AI report-writing software that generates reports automatically from body cam footage — a tool meant to save officers hours of paperwork.
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The sergeant took it in stride, saying the frog incident taught them the importance of reviewing and correcting AI-generated reports before they go anywhere. The technology is still staying — just with a few more human eyes on the output.
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