{"id":2046272,"date":"2026-07-16T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2046272"},"modified":"2026-07-16T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T08:00:00","slug":"computer-cops-inside-the-big-business-of-selling-ai-to-the-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2046272","title":{"rendered":"COMPUTER COPS: Inside the big business of selling AI to the police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><main id=\"content\"><\/p>\n<div class>\n<article>\n<div class=\"duet--article--lede duet--page-layout--feature-article\">\n<div class=\"duet--ledes--special-feature-lede gcd6w50\">\n<div class=\"gcd6w51 _1se63890\">\n<div class=\"gcd6w58\">\n<div class=\"_1xtd7xb7 _1xtd7xb4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_1044qiz6\">\n<div class=\"gcd6w52 _1044qiz3\">\n<div class=\"_1xtd7xb0 gcd6w56\">\n<div class=\"gcd6w57 _1xtd7xb1\">\n<div class=\"_19dn9e80\">\n<div class=\"_19dn9e82 _19dn9e81 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Images<\/cite><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_1xtd7xbc _1044qiz3\">\n<div class=\"waimqt3 waimqt0\">\n<div class=\"waimqt7\"><span class=\"_29pwo217\"><\/p>\n<ul class=\"duet--article--share-buttons _1e9wo7z0\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"_1e9wo7zo\"><button aria-label=\"Copy link\" class=\"_1e9wo7z5 _1e9wo7z1\"><title>Link<\/title><\/button><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><button aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-label=\"Share article\" class=\"_1e9wo7z5 _1e9wo7z1\"><title>Share<\/title><\/button><\/li>\n<li>\n<div><button aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-label=\"Gift this article\" class=\"_1e9wo7z5 _1e9wo7z1\"><title>Gift<\/title><\/button><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"_29pwo223 _1044qizr _29pwo217\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--layout--entry-body-container j2p4kx0 _1044qiz5\">\n<div class=\"j2p4kx1\">\n<div class=\"duet--layout--entry-body mebm7x0 mebm7x1\">\n<div id=\"zephr-anchor\" class>\n<div class=\"duet--article--block-placement _1xorkac1 _1xorkac0 duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<div class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1h0hdr20\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b2 _18mzr4b0 _18mzr4b7 _18mzr4b5 _19wv7tc1 _18mzr4bb\">I stood before a hulking glass and brick structure in the heart of Fort Worth, Texas. Thousands gathered inside to see what had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/presidents-message-policing-edge-innovation\/\">billed<\/a> as \u201cthe future of policing in the digital age.\u201d As press, I was prohibited from entering, but from a number of nearby locations, I met with attendees who told me what was being sold within. And I learned that AI is threatening to seize the very heart of policing in America.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The promise of AI at this year\u2019s International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Technology Conference focused on automating routine parts of the job, which also happen to be critical steps in the legal process. It\u2019s a similar sales pitch to the one that\u2019s been exhaustively broadcast to businesses in recent years: Let the machines handle the busywork, so you can focus on more <em>meaningful<\/em> tasks. But in law enforcement, the automation of seemingly innocuous \u201cbusywork\u201d \u2014 like taking the time to carefully fill out a police report or review a suspect\u2019s case history \u2014 can have immense consequences on people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Among the AI products on offer at the conference\u2019s showroom this May were facial-recognition cameras, automated license plate readers, body cameras, chatbots to field non-emergency 911 calls, gunshot detection platforms, drones, and report-writing tools. As the country has reckoned with law enforcement becoming detached from actual, human police presence in neighborhoods, the industry is continuing to embrace automation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--block-placement _1xorkac1 _1xorkac0 duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<div style=\"position:relative\">\n<div class=\"_1044qizj\">\n<div class>\n<div style=\"background-image:none\" class=\"duet--media--content-warning _1k8kvzd0\">\n<div class=\"duet--article--image-gallery-image _1pegheu0\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.501111\" id=\"dmcyOmltYWdlOjk1NjAwMg==\"><a class=\"_1pegheu1\" href=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/shutterstock_1160515732-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" data-pswp-height=\"1800\" data-pswp-width=\"2702\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fort Worth Convention Center, 2018.\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"i7ks070\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;filter: url(%23b);)\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/shutterstock_1160515732-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&amp;w=2400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--media--caption _77sxmb0\"><figcaption class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _19wv7tc2 _77sxmba\">Fort Worth Convention Center, 2018.<\/figcaption><cite class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _19wv7tc2 _77sxmb5\">Photo: Felix Mizioznikov \/ Shutterstock<\/cite><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The decision-making process itself in police departments is increasingly being handed over to algorithms. A legion of tech startups are now selling AI to police as a kind of automated air traffic control system, a centralized digital brain that can process the vast quantities of data now being collected \u2014 oftentimes by other surveillance and automation tools sold by those very same companies \u2014 and help departments delegate resources accordingly. Even police aren\u2019t necessarily thrilled about these pitches.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">\u201cA lot of it is sales gimmicks that don\u2019t actually deliver on what the promise is,\u201d Abrem Ayana, a police captain in Brookhaven, Georgia, told me. In the absence of comprehensive federal oversight or industry standards \u2014 and due to the novelty of the tech itself \u2014 law enforcement officials like Ayana often have no choice but to take companies\u2019 word that their products are safe and that they work as advertised.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Police departments have used technology for decades to analyze data and, in theory, make more informed decisions in the field. In some notorious cases, it\u2019s completely backfired. CompStat and PredPol (short for \u201ccomputer comparison statistics\u201d and \u201cpredictive policing,\u201d respectively), for example, were two early experiments that sought to mitigate fallible human judgement through the use of supposedly unbiased statistics. Instead, they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/29\/nyregion\/new-york-police-department-manipulates-crime-reports-study-finds.html\">ended up<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2020\/07\/17\/1005396\/predictive-policing-algorithms-racist-dismantled-machine-learning-bias-criminal-justice\/\">exacerbating<\/a> the very problems they were meant to solve. But while those early experiments failed to usher in a new era of unbiased policing as their proponents had hoped, human beings were at least still at the helm, making the most important decisions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The sales pitch behind this new wave of AI products is that the mistakes of the past were enabled by a lack of objective, real-time data. AI can, in theory, now help to bridge the gap by ramping up the amount of public safety data that\u2019s collected and the level of analysis to which it\u2019s subjected. Many public safety advocacy groups and legal experts, however, warn that an influx of black box algorithms into law enforcement will erode transparency and accountability at a time when much of the public\u2019s trust of the police is already dangerously frayed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--block-placement _1xorkac1 _1xorkac0 duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<hr class=\"duet--article--divider _1044qizj thksxb0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _18mzr4b6 _18mzr4b5 _19wv7tc1\">Jason Truppi, a former FBI special agent specializing in cybercrime, told me that police are drowning in a sea of data. Truppi, wearing a pair of Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses, spoke quickly and excitedly in sentences peppered with corporate buzzphrases. In late 2020, he cofounded ForceMetrics, a software company offering an \u201cAI-powered decision-assist platform, enabling public safety agencies to increase operational efficiency and better serve their communities in real time,\u201d as described by its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/forcemetrics\/\">LinkedIn page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">All of the record-keeping systems that police departments have been using for the past two decades, from emergency call logs to parole record files to body camera footage databases, have, according to Truppi, created a burdensome information overload. \u201cAll the systems of record [used by police departments] are essentially antiquated,\u201d he told me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--block-placement _1xorkac2 _1xorkac0 duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-pullquote c39lj10\">\n<div class=\"c39lj11\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup c39lj12 _19wv7tc9\">\u201cWe don\u2019t use the \u2018p word\u2019 at all, because it failed.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">ForceMetrics offers police departments a platform called Velocity, which \u201cuses AI to turn overwhelming amounts of public safety data into clear, actionable insights,\u201d according to the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forcemetrics.com\/product\">website<\/a>. In police-tech industry-speak, Velocity is what\u2019s known as a real-time crime center, or RTCC. First adopted by the New York City Police Department over 20 years ago, RTCCs are designed to aggregate police data coming in from multiple streams \u2014 like 911 dispatch, CCTV cameras, and license-plate scanners \u2014 to provide officers with a summary of what to expect when they arrive on a scene. The theory is that the more real-time data you can give officers, the less likely they\u2019ll be to go in \u201cguts and guns,\u201d as Truppi puts it. It\u2019s a cheeky euphemism for when things go bad and people get killed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">In the past, RTCCs were overseen by human analysts whose job was to collect all the incoming digital data, organize it, and send it to the officers on patrol. But as Truppi suggests, the proliferation of new data-collection technologies within policing over the years has made it effectively impossible for any department to stay afloat in the deluge of information. By 2019, the NYPD was collecting around <em>two years\u2019<\/em> worth of body camera footage<em> every week<\/em>, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/legistar.council.nyc.gov\/View.ashx?GUID=D661482E-99BA-4A99-8805-DF4DEDAA0C8B&amp;ID=7951413&amp;M=F__;!!BDUfV1Et5lrpZQ!TF61xUjpt0N207LwdxCEDTJnxMUyZZlfxGnj720hbz6UiHS9vCClklpBZxTMMif-BqID5pTN9h2BDAvBp9G9U4O6y5Hmf2yMomRBUF8%24\">transcript<\/a> of a 2019 Committee on Public Safety hearing \u2014 too much for even the most diligent human employee to meaningfully analyze.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Modern RTCCs like Velocity are designed to quickly extract patterns from oceans of data with the goal of improving situational awareness for cops. According to Truppi, the \u201cunfortunate events\u201d that have so disastrously damaged Americans\u2019 trust in police departments in recent years, especially during the pandemic, can largely be attributed to a lack of what he calls \u201ca data-driven approach\u201d to policing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Nina Loshkajian, a fellow at the New York University Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law, is wary of this claim. \u201cThe reality is that police departments had already been using predictive algorithms, which companies touted as data-driven, for years before calls to defund the police revved up in 2020,\u201d she told me. \u201cThese algorithmic systems did not prevent violent encounters between police and civilians then, and we shouldn\u2019t be tricked into thinking they\u2019ll make a meaningful difference in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--block-placement _1xorkac1 _1xorkac0 duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<hr class=\"duet--article--divider _1044qizj thksxb0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _18mzr4b6 _18mzr4b5 _19wv7tc1\">Truppi\u2019s company is competing with two of the biggest players in the modern police-technology industrial complex: Motorola Solutions and Axon Enterprise, both of which make not only their own RTCCs, but also many of the data-collection and surveillance technologies they rely on.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">In early 2024, Axon \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axon.com\/news\/our-future-as-axon\">originally called TASER<\/a> \u2014 acquired surveillance technology company Fusus to launch a RTCC, which was officially branded as <a href=\"https:\/\/investor.axon.com\/2024-02-01-Axon-Accelerates-Real-Time-Operations-Solution-with-Strategic-Acquisition-of-Fusus\">Axon Fusus<\/a>. By that time, Axon was already a well-known purveyor of stun guns, body-worn cameras, and automated license plate readers. The company also offers a popular AI-powered report-writing tool called Draft One, drones for police departments through a program called Axon Air, and even its own AI chatbot.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--block-placement _1xorkac1 _1xorkac0 duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<div style=\"position:relative\">\n<div class=\"_1044qizj\">\n<div class>\n<div style=\"background-image:none\" class=\"duet--media--content-warning _1k8kvzd0\">\n<div class=\"duet--article--image-gallery-image _1pegheu0\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1\" id=\"dmcyOmltYWdlOjk2NTA3Nw==\"><a class=\"_1pegheu1\" href=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/268595_AI_policing_SPOT2_CVirginia.gif?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" data-pswp-height=\"1000\" data-pswp-width=\"1000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Glitchy looping video of a pair of handcuffs swinging. \" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"i7ks070\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;filter: url(%23b);)\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/268595_AI_policing_SPOT2_CVirginia.gif?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&amp;w=2400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Axon and Motorola are part of a very small group of companies competing to effectively monopolize the entire modern police technology stack, from the collection of data at crime scenes to the strategic decision-making capabilities of AI-powered RTCCs. Police departments today often sign onto multiyear contracts with these providers, who in turn offer free trial periods for new tech, along with what are known as <a href=\"https:\/\/govtribe.com\/opportunity\/state-local-contract-opportunity\/sole-source-axon-enterprise-inc-dot-ss117774\">sole-source procurement agreements<\/a>, which enable them to continue selling new products to departments without having to bid against competing offers from other vendors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--block-placement _1xorkac2 _1xorkac0 duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-pullquote c39lj10\">\n<div class=\"c39lj11\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup c39lj12 _19wv7tc9\">\u201cWe\u2019re seeing a gold rush into selling [AI] technology to police with the promise that it will all make their jobs easier and more efficient.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">In late 2024, Axon launched its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axon.com\/products\/axon-ai-era-plan\">AI Era Plan<\/a>, a subscription that allows customers to pay a flat annual fee to gain access both to the company\u2019s current AI tools, like Draft One, as well as others it might launch in the future. AI Era Plan subscriptions skyrocketed by 140 percent between the first quarter of last year and the same time this year, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/filecache.investorroom.com\/mr5ir_axon\/604\/Axon_Q1_2026_Earnings_Call_Transcript.pdf\">transcript<\/a> of a company earnings call with investors: \u201cwe are seeing AI move from early interest to a standard part of how large agencies think about their future technology stack,\u201d Axon President Joshua Isner said in that call. \u201cWe are determined to become the AI company in public safety, and we are well on our way.\u201d According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/filecache.investorroom.com\/mr5ir_axon\/604\/Axon_Q1_2026_Earnings_Call_Transcript.pdf\">transcript<\/a>, Axon\u2019s AI product revenue grew 700 percent year over year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">While bigger companies like Axon, Motorola, and Flock Safety currently dominate the police technology-industrial complex, it\u2019s facing growing competition from the army of newer tech startups that were exhibiting at the IACP tech conference in Texas. \u201cThe entire game of all of these companies is to become <em>the<\/em> platform for policing,\u201d says Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, a professor at Georgetown University Law School and the author of multiple books on the intersection of policing and technology. \u201cWe\u2019re seeing a gold rush into selling [AI] technology to police with the promise that it will all make their jobs easier and more efficient.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">That gold rush has also attracted an influx of outside investors: About one-quarter of attendees on the showroom floor at the conference were from \u201cequity firms looking to invest in the latest tech,\u201d according to Amber Schroader, a tech entrepreneur whom I spoke with in Fort Worth during the event. \u201cThat was a surprise.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--block-placement _1xorkac1 _1xorkac0 duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<hr class=\"duet--article--divider _1044qizj thksxb0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _18mzr4b6 _18mzr4b5 _19wv7tc1\">The sales pitch has been working.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Draft One and other AI-powered report-writing tools, for example, have significant appeal at a time when the average police officer spends 40 percent of a typical shift writing reports, according to a 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axon.com\/resources\/7-key-trends-in-records-management\">study<\/a> conducted by Axon. Many of those are for mundane incidents like traffic stops and noise complaints. \u201cWe didn\u2019t sign up to sit behind a keyboard,\u201d said John Mackey, a patrol sergeant with Colorado\u2019s Avon Police Department, which uses Field Notes, an AI-powered report-writing tool made by a company called Truleo. \u201cThat wasn\u2019t why I became a police officer.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Draft One comes with design features intended to force a degree of human oversight. The system will intentionally leave certain details blank, for example, forcing officers to go in and fill them in manually. The platform is built upon a modified version of ChatGPT trained specifically to generate police reports and that, according to the company, is hallucination-free: \u201cThe creativity is turned down to zero,\u201d Noah Spitzer-Williams, senior principal product manager at Axon\u2019s generative AI division, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.policemag.com\/articles\/axons-report-generator\">said<\/a>. That claim should be taken with a very large grain of salt, however, since even frontier labs like OpenAI (the company behind ChatGPT), Anthropic, and Google have not yet figured out how to completely eradicate hallucination from even their most advanced models. And indeed, in one infamous incident from earlier this year, Draft One wrote that an officer in Utah had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.police1.com\/artificial-intelligence\/utah-pd-testing-ai-report-writing-software-shares-comical-error-caused-by-the-princess-and-the-frog\">morphed into a frog<\/a>, after having picked up audio from the Disney movie <em>The Princess and the Frog<\/em>, which had reportedly been playing in the background at the scene.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">It\u2019s easy to laugh at that incident, but real-world outcomes from AI-written police reports could be deadly serious. When a human officer writes a report, they can be cross-examined in a courtroom to figure out important details like their state of mind at the time, or why they included certain details and omitted others. By definition, it\u2019s impossible to subject black box algorithms to the same level of scrutiny.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--block-placement _1xorkac2 _1xorkac0 duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-pullquote c39lj10\">\n<div class=\"c39lj11\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup c39lj12 _19wv7tc9\">Axon and Motorola are part of a very small group of companies competing to effectively monopolize the entire modern police technology stack, from the collection of data at crime scenes to the strategic decision-making capabilities of AI-powered RTCCs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">In the case of Draft One, it was also originally impossible to determine which parts of a report were generated by the AI and which by the human officer once the report has been submitted \u2014 save the officer\u2019s own memory. That was a feature, not a bug. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/941650612\">recorded roundtable discussion<\/a> published online shortly after Draft One was launched in 2024, Spitzer-Williams said the platform \u201cby design\u201d doesn\u2019t save an original copy of a report after it\u2019s been submitted, \u201cbecause [the] last thing we want to do is create more disclosure headaches for our customers and our attorney\u2019s offices\u2026 it\u2019s actually never stored in the cloud at all so you don\u2019t have to worry about extra copies, you know, floating around.\u201d In other words, if a report generated by Draft One ended up in court and was found to contain erroneous details, there was no way for attorneys or judges to know for certain if those were input by the officer or by AI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Draft One was updated in December to allow police departments \u201cto retain and access the original, unedited AI-generated narrative,\u201d according to Axon spokesperson Victoria Keough. The change was implemented \u201cas [law enforcement] agencies, prosecutors, policymakers, and legislatures have established clearer expectations and requirements for AI-assisted report writing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Brandon Garrett, a professor at the Duke University School of Law who has studied the implications of AI systems for due process, is apprehensive of the technology. \u201cThe idea that you\u2019d be making up data \u2014 which is what generative models do \u2014 to be used in court, is really, really troubling,\u201d he says. \u201cWe would never tell a police officer, \u2018Just be creative and come up with a story about what you saw at the crime scene.\u2019 Of course not: They\u2019re supposed to objectively record as best as they can and document what they saw at the crime scene. But generative models are designed to create.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--block-placement _1xorkac1 _1xorkac0 duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<hr class=\"duet--article--divider _1044qizj thksxb0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _18mzr4b6 _18mzr4b5 _19wv7tc1\">In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, LA police chief Charlie Beck took inspiration from Wal-Mart and Amazon\u2019s personalized shopping algorithms and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/predictive-policing-what-can-we-learn-from-wal-mart-and-amazon-about-fighting-crime-in-a-recession\/\">wrote that police departments should use similar tools<\/a> to predict crime. Starting in the 2010s, \u201cpredictive policing\u201d programs were widely implemented in cities across the country. But far from creating a new era of fairness and justice in policing, the algorithms in many cases had exactly the opposite effect: Since the models had been trained to detect patterns from historic crime data, the biases hidden within that training data were perpetuated \u2014 under the guise of mathematical objectivity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">PredPol, for example, was based on an algorithm originally used to predict the geographical distributions of earthquake aftershocks, the idea being that the same general principle could be applied to predicting crime: the tighter the correlation between a certain area and a particular criminal pattern, so the thinking went, the higher the likelihood that same pattern will continue into the future. This allowed the AI to identify crime hotspots, which personnel-strapped police departments could focus more attention on.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">But PredPol and similar programs failed to account for some key facts. For example, more crimes tend to be <a href=\"http:\/\/jstor.org\/stable\/26428428\">reported<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/centerforjusticeresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Economic-correlates-of-crime-An-empirical-test-in-Houston.pdf\">poorer<\/a> neighborhoods, which in many major cities are populated primarily by people of color, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/graphic-detail\/2018\/06\/07\/the-stark-relationship-between-income-inequality-and-crime?utm_medium=cpc.adword.pd&amp;utm_source=google&amp;ppccampaignID=17210591673&amp;ppcadID=&amp;utm_campaign=a.22brand_pmax&amp;utm_content=conversion.direct-response.anonymous&amp;gclsrc=aw.ds&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=17210596221&amp;gbraid=0AAAAADBuq3LWwKuBIbOpSTgM3gcw4Gd1A&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwsMLSBhD9ARIsAIpUTDqNLL5POOELDmf0SW3nmrpX4jhz02ZYNnuGj-xd5I3gZIX5dn-fhc4aAs3zEALw_wcB\">leading to a higher police presence<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/235391\/peace-security-reach-worldwide.aspx\">arrest rate<\/a> than those found in other areas. The algorithm had no way of understanding that the fact that there was a higher crime rate in one neighborhood, say, than there was in another, more affluent area was largely the product of a complex history of social, political, and racial biases and policies; it just ingested the data it had been given, leading to a more intensive focus on historically over-policed areas: a self-perpetuating cycle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--block-placement _1xorkac1 _1xorkac0 duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<div style=\"position:relative\">\n<div class=\"_1044qizj\">\n<div class>\n<div style=\"background-image:none\" class=\"duet--media--content-warning _1k8kvzd0\">\n<div class=\"duet--article--image-gallery-image _1pegheu0\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1\" id=\"dmcyOmltYWdlOjk2NTA3MA==\"><a class=\"_1pegheu1\" href=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/268595_AI_policing_SPOT1_CVirginia.gif?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" data-pswp-height=\"1000\" data-pswp-width=\"1000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"i7ks070\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;filter: url(%23b);)\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/268595_AI_policing_SPOT1_CVirginia.gif?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&amp;w=2400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">This was clearly illustrated in 2016, when AI researchers Kristian Lum and William Isaac tested a predictive policing algorithm using historic drug crime data from the Oakland Police Department. The algorithm recommended dispatching police \u201calmost exclusively to lower income, minority neighborhoods,\u201d Lum wrote in a follow-up <a href=\"https:\/\/hrdag.org\/2016\/10\/10\/predictive-policing-reinforces-police-bias\/\">article<\/a>, even though public health data at the time showed that illegal drug use was widely distributed across the city.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/progov21.org\/Download\/Document\/5SQ553\">same pattern<\/a> emerged wherever predictive policing programs were implemented. \u201cThe use of predictive policing systems can make the future look a lot like the past,\u201d \u00c1ngel D\u00edaz, an associate professor at Loyola Law School, told me. \u201cBecause a lot of the data you\u2019re pulling is from the world as understood by biased policing practices, the patterns that exist in that data will be drawn out by the computer and might help inform future policing practices.\u201d In 2024, four democratic US senators <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyden.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/letter_to_doj_predictive_policing_and_title_vi_1242024.pdf\">urged the Department of Justice<\/a> to halt all future grants to law enforcement agencies for predictive policing programs, citing evidence that such programs \u201care prone to over-predicting crime rates in Black and Latino neighborhoods while under-predicting crime in white neighborhoods.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Predictive policing has therefore become taboo in the modern police-tech industrial complex, a cautionary tale about conflating statistics with objectivity. (PredPol <a href=\"https:\/\/www.santacruzworks.org\/news\/geolitica-a-new-name-a-new-focus\">changed its brand name<\/a> to Geolitica in March of 2021). \u201cWe don\u2019t use the \u2018p word\u2019 at all,\u201d Truppi told me, \u201cbecause it failed.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--block-placement _1xorkac1 _1xorkac0 duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<hr class=\"duet--article--divider _1044qizj thksxb0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _18mzr4b6 _18mzr4b5 _19wv7tc1\">Experts say a future of policing based on increasingly fine-grained personal data collection and AI-driven policing is frightening. As the decision-making power of AI within policing grows, so too will the inscrutability of the justice system itself, according to D\u00edaz, the Loyola Law professor. \u201cThe biggest thing that worries me is that we are rapidly expanding how much data is being collected about all of us,\u201d he told me. \u201cThe reality is that the more data you have about any given person, the easier it is to reverse engineer a reason to target them; the more data you have about each individual, the easier it is to transform them into the subject of an investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Facing budget cuts and staffing shortages, and accosted by sales pitches in every direction, police departments are now facing the same kind of pressure as private companies to adopt new AI tools \u2014 which, they\u2019re promised, are free of the foibles found in earlier programs like PredPol and CompStat. And as Brookhaven\u2019s Captain Ayana mentioned, all of this is happening inside a regulatory vacuum, with law enforcement leaders left to their own discretion to separate the gimmicks from the legitimately safe and useful tools.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--block-placement _1xorkac2 _1xorkac0 duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-pullquote c39lj10\">\n<div class=\"c39lj11\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup c39lj12 _19wv7tc9\">\u201cThe use of predictive policing systems can make the future look a lot like the past.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">According to Katie Kinsey, chief of staff and tech policy council at the Policing Project, a nonprofit organization focused on promoting accountability within law enforcement, the challenge facing police departments now is ensuring that the data that\u2019s fed into this advanced new generation of RTCCs is reliable\u2014i.e., free from the biases that infected the training data of earlier tools. \u201cWe absolutely do want police practice to be informed by data and to be evidence-based,\u201d Kinsey told me. \u201cBut data is not perfect, and not all data is created equal\u2026Understanding the data sources and limitations that police are working with are especially crucial in our AI age where data increasingly is the currency of decision-making.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Such transparency is made much more difficult when the data is controlled by private vendors, such as Axon, whose business models rely on maintaining the secrecy of their proprietary AI tools. And if there\u2019s one lesson that can be drawn from the broader AI race, it\u2019s that the race to dominate market share often comes at the expense of safety. For the moment though, in lieu of any broad governance, police departments are left to their own devices to choose from a growing roster of tech vendors. The decisions they make today will impact how decisions are made within their departments tomorrow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">When I asked Stephen Redfearn, the chief of Colorado\u2019s Boulder Police Department, about the future of AI within law enforcement, he told me: \u201cIt\u2019s going to continue to be kind of a roller coaster for a while, while people get more comfortable with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\"><em>This reporting was supported by a grant from the <\/em><a 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snatched millions of songs from YouTube, Genius, and Deezer\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"i7ks070\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;filter: url(%23b);)\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/chorus\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/25383554\/STK467_AI_MUSIC_CVirginia_B.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&amp;w=2400\"><\/div>\n<div class>\n<div class=\"up4voo6\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"_19wv7tc9 _1d4s5vd7 _1d4s5vd0\"><a class=\"_7uluu50 _7uluu54 _7uluu55\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/966072\/suno-ai-music-training-scraping-youtube-hack\">Suno snatched millions of songs from YouTube, Genius, and Deezer<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class>\n<div class=\"duet--content-cards--content-card up4voo0 _7uluu53\">\n<div class=\"up4voo7 up4voop up4vooa _1cnxcye3\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"OpenAI finally launches hardware\u2026 for Codex\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"i7ks070\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;filter: url(%23b);)\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/Supply-Co-Page_Brand.png?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=11.064718162839%2C0%2C77.870563674322%2C100&amp;w=2400\"><\/div>\n<div class>\n<div class=\"up4voo6\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"_19wv7tc9 _1d4s5vd7 _1d4s5vd0\"><a class=\"_7uluu50 _7uluu54 _7uluu55\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/965901\/openai-hardware-codex-micro-launch\">OpenAI finally launches hardware\u2026 for Codex<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class>\n<div class=\"duet--content-cards--content-card up4voo0 _7uluu53\">\n<div class=\"up4voo7 up4voop up4vooa _1cnxcye3\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"OpenAI may announce a ChatGPT smart speaker this year\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"i7ks070\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;filter: url(%23b);)\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/STK155_OPEN_AI_4_CVirginia_D.png?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0%2C0.011761938367442%2C100%2C99.976476123265&amp;w=2400\"><\/div>\n<div class>\n<div class=\"up4voo6\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"_19wv7tc9 _1d4s5vd7 _1d4s5vd0\"><a class=\"_7uluu50 _7uluu54 _7uluu55\" 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class=\"up4voo6\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"_19wv7tc9 _1d4s5vd7 _1d4s5vd0\"><a class=\"_7uluu50 _7uluu54 _7uluu55\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/965600\/spacexai-grok-build-repository-upload\">SpaceXAI\u2019s Grok programming tool was uploading its users\u2019 entire codebase to cloud storage<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_1hofmaw2\">\n<div class=\"duet--content-cards--content-card _1ismqj1 _1ismqj0 _7uluu53 _1ismqjj _1ismqj5\">\n<div class=\"_1ismqj7 _1ismqj6 _1ismqjc _1ismqjh _1cnxcye3\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"xAI sues a man for using Grok to generate CSAM \u2018deepfakes\u2019\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"_1ismqjf i7ks070\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;filter: url(%23b);)\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/chorus\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/25362103\/STK262_GROK_XAI__A.png?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&amp;w=2400\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"xAI sues a man for using Grok to generate CSAM \u2018deepfakes\u2019\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"_1ismqjg i7ks070\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;filter: url(%23b);)\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/chorus\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/25362103\/STK262_GROK_XAI__A.png?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&amp;w=2400\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1ismqji\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"_19wv7tc9 _1d4s5vd3 _1d4s5vd0\"><a class=\"_7uluu50 _7uluu54\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/966293\/xai-grok-user-lawsuit-csam\">xAI sues a man for using Grok to generate CSAM \u2018deepfakes\u2019<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"jelpepd jelpep0\"><span><span class=\"_1g89o322 _19wv7tc5\"><span><span>Emma Roth<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"duet--article--timestamp g4xafw2 g4xafw0 _19wv7tc5 _1044qizs\"><time datetime=\"2026-07-15T21:33:20+00:00\">Jul 15<\/time><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--content-cards--content-card _1ismqj1 _1ismqj0 _7uluu53 _1ismqj5\">\n<div class=\"_1ismqj7 _1ismqj6 _1ismqjc _1ismqjh _1cnxcye3\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"AI slop movies are the new direct-to-video cash grabs\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"_1ismqjf i7ks070\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;filter: url(%23b);)\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-14-at-3.55.09-PM.png?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=29.19276270007%2C0%2C41.614474599861%2C100&amp;w=2400\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"AI slop movies are the new direct-to-video cash grabs\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"_1ismqjg i7ks070\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;filter: url(%23b);)\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-14-at-3.55.09-PM.png?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=18.789144050104%2C0%2C62.421711899791%2C100&amp;w=2400\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1ismqji\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"_19wv7tc9 _1d4s5vd3 _1d4s5vd0\"><a class=\"_7uluu50 _7uluu54\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/965616\/ash-koosha-odysseus-the-fall-foundtain-zero-tilly-norwood\">AI slop movies are the new direct-to-video cash grabs<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"jelpepd jelpep0\"><span><span class=\"_1g89o322 _19wv7tc5\"><span><span>Charles Pulliam-Moore<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"duet--article--timestamp g4xafw2 g4xafw0 _19wv7tc5 _1044qizs\"><time datetime=\"2026-07-15T20:00:00+00:00\">Jul 15<\/time><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--content-cards--content-card _1ismqj1 _1ismqj0 _7uluu53 _1ismqj5\">\n<div class=\"_1ismqj7 _1ismqj6 _1ismqjc _1ismqjh _1cnxcye3\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Suno snatched millions of songs from YouTube, Genius, and Deezer\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"_1ismqjf i7ks070\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;filter: url(%23b);)\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/chorus\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/25383554\/STK467_AI_MUSIC_CVirginia_B.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&amp;w=2400\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Suno snatched millions of songs from YouTube, Genius, and Deezer\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"_1ismqjg i7ks070\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;filter: url(%23b);)\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/chorus\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/25383554\/STK467_AI_MUSIC_CVirginia_B.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&amp;w=2400\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1ismqji\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"_19wv7tc9 _1d4s5vd3 _1d4s5vd0\"><a class=\"_7uluu50 _7uluu54\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/966072\/suno-ai-music-training-scraping-youtube-hack\">Suno snatched millions of songs from YouTube, Genius, and Deezer<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"jelpepd jelpep0\"><span><span class=\"_1g89o322 _19wv7tc5\"><span><span>Jess Weatherbed<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"duet--article--timestamp g4xafw2 g4xafw0 _19wv7tc5 _1044qizs\"><time datetime=\"2026-07-15T17:48:01+00:00\">Jul 15<\/time><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--content-cards--content-card _1ismqj1 _1ismqj0 _7uluu53 _1ismqj5\">\n<div class=\"_1ismqj7 _1ismqj6 _1ismqjc _1ismqjh _1cnxcye3\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"OpenAI finally launches hardware\u2026 for Codex\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"_1ismqjf i7ks070\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;filter: url(%23b);)\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/Supply-Co-Page_Brand.png?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=24.043145441893%2C0%2C51.913709116214%2C100&amp;w=2400\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"OpenAI finally launches hardware\u2026 for Codex\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"_1ismqjg i7ks070\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;filter: url(%23b);)\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/Supply-Co-Page_Brand.png?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=11.064718162839%2C0%2C77.870563674322%2C100&amp;w=2400\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1ismqji\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"_19wv7tc9 _1d4s5vd3 _1d4s5vd0\"><a class=\"_7uluu50 _7uluu54\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/965901\/openai-hardware-codex-micro-launch\">OpenAI finally launches hardware\u2026 for Codex<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"jelpepd jelpep0\"><span><span class=\"_1g89o322 _19wv7tc5\"><span><span>Robert Hart<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"duet--article--timestamp g4xafw2 g4xafw0 _19wv7tc5 _1044qizs\"><time datetime=\"2026-07-15T16:00:00+00:00\">Jul 15<\/time><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--content-cards--content-card _1ismqj1 _1ismqj0 _7uluu53 _1ismqj5\">\n<div class=\"_1ismqj7 _1ismqj6 _1ismqjc _1ismqjh _1cnxcye3\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"OpenAI may announce a ChatGPT smart speaker this year\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"_1ismqjf i7ks070\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;filter: url(%23b);)\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/STK155_OPEN_AI_4_CVirginia_D.png?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=16.658823529412%2C0%2C66.682352941176%2C100&amp;w=2400\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"OpenAI may announce a ChatGPT smart speaker this year\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"_1ismqjg i7ks070\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;filter: url(%23b);)\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/STK155_OPEN_AI_4_CVirginia_D.png?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0%2C0.011761938367442%2C100%2C99.976476123265&amp;w=2400\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1ismqji\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"_19wv7tc9 _1d4s5vd3 _1d4s5vd0\"><a class=\"_7uluu50 _7uluu54\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/965670\/openai-chatgpt-ai-smart-speaker-hardware-device\">OpenAI may announce a ChatGPT smart speaker this year<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"jelpepd jelpep0\"><span><span class=\"_1g89o322 _19wv7tc5\"><span><span>Emma Roth<\/span><\/span><span><span class=\"_1g89o320\"> and <\/span><span>Jay Peters<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"duet--article--timestamp g4xafw2 g4xafw0 _19wv7tc5 _1044qizs\"><time datetime=\"2026-07-14T21:26:32+00:00\">Jul 14<\/time><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--content-cards--content-card _1ismqj1 _1ismqj0 _7uluu53 _1ismqjk _1ismqjl _1ismqj5\">\n<div class=\"_1ismqj7 _1ismqj6 _1ismqjc _1ismqjh _1cnxcye3\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SpaceXAI\u2019s Grok programming tool was uploading its users\u2019 entire codebase to cloud storage\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"_1ismqjf i7ks070\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;filter: url(%23b);)\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/STK262_GROK_B_B.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&amp;w=2400\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SpaceXAI\u2019s Grok programming tool was uploading its users\u2019 entire codebase to cloud storage\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"_1ismqjg i7ks070\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;filter: url(%23b);)\" 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_7uluu54 _7uluu55\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/966111\/cyclospora-explosive-diarrhea-parasite-fda-cdc-taco-bell\">Our \u2018explosive diarrhea parasite\u2019 future<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--content-cards--content-card _1ismqj0 _7uluu53 _1ismqj5\">\n<div class=\"_1ismqji\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class>\n<div class=\"jelpep4 jelpep0\"><span class=\"duet--article--timestamp g4xafw8 g4xafw0 _19wv7tc5\"><time datetime=\"2026-07-15T20:00:00+00:00\">Jul 15<\/time><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"_19wv7tc9 _1d4s5vd7 _1d4s5vd0\"><a class=\"_7uluu50 _7uluu54 _7uluu55\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/965616\/ash-koosha-odysseus-the-fall-foundtain-zero-tilly-norwood\">AI slop movies are the new direct-to-video cash grabs<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--content-cards--content-card _1ismqj0 _7uluu53 _1ismqjk _1ismqjl _1ismqj5\">\n<div 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