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Enhancing Digital Investigation: The Role of Generative AI (ChatGPT) in Evidence Identification and Analysis in Digital Forensics

2025· article· W7125789553 on OpenAlex

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Typearticle
Language
FieldComputer Science
TopicDigital and Cyber Forensics
Canadian institutionsArtificial Intelligence in Medicine (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsArtifact (error)Digital forensicsProcess (computing)Identification (biology)Generative grammarTransformative learningDigital evidence

Abstract

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Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) has garnered considerable attention across disciplines such as science, digital forensics, and literature. Advanced large language modeling systems (LLMs), including ChatGPT and Large Language Model Meta AI (LLaMA), have become essential tools in digital forensics due to their sophisticated Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities. These systems enable efficient processing of extensive text datasets, sentiment analysis, and real-time threat detection. This research explores the effectiveness of AI-driven methods in digital forensics by conducting comprehensive tests on various applications, such as artifact comprehension, evidence search, and incident response. The results confirm the transformative role of ChatGPT in enhancing the speed and accuracy of investigation, as the study showed that the system can analyze data and images related to crimes and provide comprehensive reports. Not only does he process evidence, but it can also extract complete conversations related to crime, determining when it occurred and whether it was planned. The system meticulously analyzes the data sent to it to provide additional details such as possible motives and behavior of suspects. It provides investigators with an in-depth understanding that can be used at various stages of the investigation, and even in the courts as credible evidence. This approach reflects the importance of responsible adoption of the system while offering guidelines for its responsible adoption and future development.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScholarly communication
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.343
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.006
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.006
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.239
Teacher spread0.228 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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Published2025
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