A man broke into an old woman’s house recently, and after being described to the police in Kent, England, an AI image of the fellow was rendered. Usually, of course, an artist will sketch the profile of the criminal suspect based on details provided by the witness, but now AI is having its shot; only, the result was laughable.

The profile looked like it could have come from the 2008 version of the Wii. It isn’t detailed, the neck and head aren’t ratioed like a real person’s would be, and it just simply came out cartoonish.

Frank Landymore reported on the incident over at Futurism, writing,

The suspect is described as being a white man around five feet, five inches tall of an average build with short dark hair and a missing front tooth. Based on the police image, he may possibly even be a living, breathing PS1 character in the pixelated flesh, walking among us.

Or, as some have pointed out, it could even be the very much not a video game character Pete Buttigieg, the US Secretary of Transportation, after a long weekend bender. The resemblance is uncanny.

We’re Losing Our Minds at This “Computer Generated” Sketch of a Police Suspect (futurism.com)

It is pretty comical. But also, as Landymore notes, serious, too. If AI did this poor of a job, then it can’t bode well for criminal investigations should the technology be depended on in this way in the future. Human-made sketches are imperfect, too, but we would wager they’re generally more accurate than the computerized profiles resembling the video game character you played on your parents’ Dell back in 2004.