An AI Model Trained on Prison Phone Calls Now Looks for Planned Crimes
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- find first occurrence (of a mention, of a repetitive pattern of abuse)
- find common substrings
- find multiple names in sequence; track the count of name references per time interval
- with an LLM, build queries to also search for synonyms and similar phrases