Clearview AI built and tested an experimental assistant called InquiryIQ that takes details an investigator pulls from a face search and then fans out across the web, opening pages and reading images to assemble a profile, WIRED reported.
The unreleased tool is designed to return possible employers, aliases, associates and physical characteristics of a person under investigation. Code reviewed by WIRED shows the interface telling users that providing age, gender and race helps the system search more intelligently.
A SpaceXAI model, from the Elon Musk outfit behind Grok that folded into SpaceX in February, was among those Clearview tried. Clearview declined to say how those demographic inputs would shape output.
Reviewers who examined the tool for WIRED reckoned it squeezes weeks of investigative legwork into minutes. The velocity is double-edged: cases close sooner, but it also makes it cheaper to trawl for dirt on people police would otherwise have ignored. Since generative models can reach the same answer by different paths, explaining why one lead was pursued over another may be hard.
Clearview rejects the automated-investigator label, describing InquiryIQ as a prototype that was never pitched, shipped or scheduled for release as it stands. According to chief executive Amos Kyler, no law-enforcement user has used it. WIRED found the tool in files Clearview’s login page sends to visitors before sign-in, the same method it used to uncover a Flock Safety search tool last month.
