Clearview AI tests prototype that lets police auto-compile online profiles

Clearview AI, known for its massive face-recognition database, is piloting an internal prototype named InquiryIQ that leverages generative AI to pull together a subject's online footprint after a facial-search yields a name. Users can input demographic cues—age, gender, race—to guide the system, which then crawls webpages, analyzes images and assembles a "Candidate Graph" of possible addresses, employers, social media accounts and associates.

The interface lists model options including SpaceXAI’s Grok and Amazon Bedrock, though Clearview says these are for internal comparison, not for police selection. The company stresses that no law-enforcement agency has used the tool and that human analysts must verify any leads before adding them to a case file. Critics argue that automating investigative work could lower the friction that currently limits mass surveillance, while also raising concerns about AI hallucinations and bias in the generated data. Nonetheless, some scholars note that AI-recorded investigative trails might improve auditability compared with traditional detective work.