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AI Police Report in Utah Erroneously Says Officer Turned Into a Frog

The Heber City pilot traced the mistake to body-cam audio that captured The Princess and the Frog.

Overview

  • Heber City police were testing Axon’s Draft One and the startup Code Four in December when a mock traffic-stop report claimed an officer transformed into a frog.
  • Police identified Draft One, which uses OpenAI’s GPT models to generate narratives from body-camera audio, as the system that pulled movie dialogue into the draft.
  • Reviewers flagged numerous inaccuracies that required substantial corrections, even as Sgt. Rick Keel reported saving six to eight hours of paperwork each week.
  • The department continues its pilot with added oversight and has not decided whether to keep using Draft One.
  • The incident has intensified concerns from experts and advocates about automation errors, weak audit trails, and accountability in AI-generated police records.