This is very multi-faceted and complex. From one perspective, there should be no harm in simply using LLMs as a text processor, if the accounts written down in

This is very multi-faceted and complex. From one perspective, there should be no harm in simply using LLMs as a text processor, if the accounts written down in said text are genuine and verified as such by the officer. From a more practical perspective, an account written by a witness itself will always be more accurate to what they actually saw and how they interpreted it, than a statement written by any third party. It doesn’t matter if the third party is human or not. Also, LLMs show heavy Silicon Valley ethical bias. This is not news to anyone here. To ingest this bias into our legal system, I think grants too much power to the tech companies. Especially in common law, where precedents can be established. On the other hand, the justice system will be largely supervised by humans, so perhaps they will discern what is right and wrong, moral and immoral, ethical and unethical, or what has perverted ethics. Then again, if this system becomes more AI-based over time, we may lose human control and our legal system may be in large part controlled by tech companies. This is not a good slope to slide down, and how slippery it is remains to be seen. Also, what if the halo effect created by the way LLM expresses itself hides institutional prejudice? You can always push ChatGPT to come up with 20 polite ways to express your racist beliefs, for example. But if you wrote your own statements, they may be more visible. I’m sure police already know whatever LLMs produce is more PR friendly as a benefit, but is there a dark side to this? Lastly, what about data protection? What if I don’t want my data to be ingested by LLMs for training, but I am, let’s say, a victim of a crime? Do I have no reasonable expectation of privacy anymore? Remember what Google said about people who hand over their data to third parties and how they argued it is evidence that such people don’t have a reasonable expectation of privacy. The responsible adult thing to do would be to run research on it and find how the LLMs bias police statements and what kind of effects that can have to a justice system — proper double blind studies. Done by a committee of experts from judges to institutes and projects for civil justice. With so many ways to slip off the thin tightrope where everyone acts with integrity and not only best interest, but also competent best interest of one another and justice… I think this is bound to end poorly if we go balls to the walls with this sort of thing. And then to top this off, other commenters present strong arguments that further complicate the matter.