Police in Tokyo use AI to spot shady job offers on social media

Until now, Tokyo police had identified suspicious posts on social media platforms by manually searching for them using keywords. Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department has introduced an artificial intelligence tool that automatically gathers and analyzes social media posts that appear to offer dark part-time jobs, it announced Tuesday. For example, if a post on X is deemed to be an offer for shady jobs, police post a reply warning users the message in question may contain inappropriate content soliciting people who are prepared to do illicit part-time jobs. The number of such warning posts made between August and November this year came to around 18,500, more than double the roughly 8,800 replies made in the entire year of 2024. Until now, Tokyo police had identified suspicious posts by manually searching for such messages using keywords.