It is known that members of the SNS "dark part-time job" were recruited in a series of wide-area robberies nationwide, but the Hyogo Prefectural Police Headquarters has a system that automatically detects suspicious posts using artificial intelligence (AI). was introduced for the first time in the country.
This means that we will send you a warning if we determine that you suspect a post soliciting criminal offenders.
Executioners of special fraud "receivers" and "deliverers" are recruited through recruitment of "dark part-timers" on SNS, and there are groups that collect members and repeat crimes in the same way in wide-area robbery cases that occur one after another all over the country. I know you will.
In response to this, the Hyogo Prefectural Police Headquarters is the first in Japan to introduce a system that uses AI technology to automatically detect posts such as "dark part-time job" and "high income" posted on SNS. decided to
At the Hyogo Prefectural Police, investigators have been manually searching for suspicious posts and sending warnings, but they want to improve efficiency by introducing AI, and aim to start operation this year.
Also, if it determines that there is a suspicion of a post soliciting crime actors, it will send a warning message such as "no one will help you if you get caught" or "you will be used and thrown away". I am going to
Yasufumi Oshita, deputy head of the Hyogo Prefectural Police's Life Safety Planning Division, said, "If you apply for a 'dark part-time job', your personal information will be grasped by a criminal group, and there are cases where it will be used for crimes while being threatened. I definitely want you to stop," he said.
Expert "How to check effectively"
Shuichiro Hoshi, a professor of law at Tokyo Metropolitan University who is familiar with the problems of the Internet society, said, "It seems that the recruitment of 'dark part-time job' on SNS is posted in large quantities without much effort by an automatic program. Since it is difficult to crack down legally, the reality is that criminal groups use SNS methods, which have a low risk of being caught, to gather actors."
On top of that, he said, "While SNS is a convenient means of communication, there are an increasing number of cases where SNS is being misused for crimes, and how the police can effectively check such cases will be a major issue in the future. It is important to call attention to a wide range of people in order to make many people aware that if they apply for a 'dark part-time job', they will be complicit in crime."