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Crime-App Citizen Is Using AI to Generate Crime Alerts With No Human Review. It’s Making a Lot of Mistakes
Three sources described how AI is writing alerts for Citizen and broadcasting them without prior human review. In one case AI mistranslated “motor vehicle accident” to “murder vehicle accident.”
Crime-awareness app Citizen is using AI to write alerts that go live on the platform without any prior human review, leading to factual inaccuracies, the publication of gory details about crimes, and the exposure of sensitive data such as peoples’ license plates and names, 404 Media has learned. Those that questioned and pushed back on the declining editorial standards that came with incorporating AI and the shifting focus away from quality to quantity.” We previously reported that Citizen used a company called CloudFactory in Nepal and Kenya, where contractors would listen to police radio feeds for $1.50 to $2 an hour. “Whether it’s a heat emergency, a flood warning, a fire or crime, our new ‘NYC Public Safey’[sic] account on Citizen will keep New Yorkers informed on threats and how their city government is working to keep them safe.”
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