Heather Barnhart

One thing I want investigators to think about in this case are those ransom letters.

And I remember reading and hearing on TMZ that one of them seemed to be written by a professional.

Why was that one different?

if AI was used to help write a ransom note, which is likely.

So think about the Google searches that came out that so many IP addresses had searched for Nancy Guthrie.

Who would know her name?

Who would know where she lived prior to the kidnapping?

Can you find keywords in OpenAI that's available to the public that can be searched

for anything that was written specifically in those ransom notes?

And if the answer is yes, this could tie back to a location and to a person in their home who potentially was behind that keyboard typing those unique words.

If the person wasn't using some type of VPN and private browsing and all the things that mask you from where you're existing when you're typing things, then yes, we can find them.

But keep in mind, Brian Koberger tried to do this and we still found him.

So there is always going to be a misstep

that digital evidence will lead back to the person.

But if they didn't do this and you just open a browser and you start Googling things, absolutely that can be used the exact same way that open AI can be used.

And I don't want the public to think, oh no, I use ChatGPT or I use Claude or I use something else.

If you log in, your data is more protected than if you just start typing.

For the Palisades fire, that's how law enforcement found people of interest or suspect of interest was things that they were typing into AI that just existed out there in the world.

Video forensic experts will be able to slow down those vehicles to the point of us being able to identify make and model.

They should also be able to detect speeds.