New reporting by the Washington Post revealed that Goodyear cops are using the generative AI tool to pop out photos of suspects in place of pen-and-paper police sketches. Notably, the AI photos haven’t led to any arrests. Speaking to WaPo, Mike Bonasera, the sketch artist for the Goodyear PD, said it has a lot to do with social media engagement. Basically, the Goodyear PD believes that local residents, especially the younger crowd, are much more likely to interact with a hyper-realistic AI rendering. The Goodyear PD insists their AI renderings aren’t “AI fabrications.” This, they say, is because the AI images begin as traditional composite drawings — which are already unreliable — before they feed them into ChatGPT.