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Cellebrite Dumps AI Into Its Cell Phone-Scraping Tool So Cops Can Hallucinate Evidence
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The fourth amendment implications are on point here, but this tool isn't "hallucinating" evidence. It's a shitty LLM that lazy investigtors can use to find links between different device artifacts mostly.
Cellebrite is dumping money into this because its the industry buzz right now. They just want more of that sweet government contract money. It's usefulness (and even invasiveness in some cases) is pretty overstated.
Even less shitty LLMs tend to hallucinate.
While it being junk is all well and good, how to you convince a judge or a jury that their "evidence" is garbage?