The prosecution has contacted several courts and defense lawyers who are believed to have been affected by this ‘contamination’ of evidence, according to The Times newspaper.
The police in England and Wales recently introduced an artificial intelligence tool called PoliceAI in order to help officers write reports – which must then be approved by a human – and avoid, for example, the most tedious tasks, such as watching hours and hours of video surveillance cameras when investigating cases.
However, the head of this unit, Alex Murray, acknowledged last week that he has detected in several cases an improper use of AI for the preparation of documents that are then passed on to the judicial system, and has required agents to avoid the use of AI in these cases.
Last year there was another controversy over this same issue, when the Birmingham police banned the presence of a group of Tel Aviv Maccabi fans after the AI generated (in response to questions from the police) a panorama of riots between those fans and those of Birmingham’s Aston Vila.