TAMPA, Fla. – As people in the Tampa Bay area continue to recover and move forward after Hurricane Helene, insurance claims are weighing heavily on many people’s minds.
“To see this property piling up on the sidewalk is probably an understatement,” said Attorney Charles Gallagher.
The hardest part can be claiming your “contents” from insurance adjusters, where each lost item is listed with price estimates.
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“Contents are going to be a big issue with this hurricane. So personal property, furniture, clothing, things that you own that are not part of the actual structure itself,” Gallagher said. “It’s just horrible. It’s horrible to see. But at the same time the challenge will be significant. How do you move forward and capture everything you’ve had in a house throughout your life, twenty, thirty years from now? How does that?” possible?”
But there is an artificial intelligence tool that can help.
“It’s almost impossible to think of your entire list of possessions in your head,” says Dr. Jill Schiefelbein, an AI expert and professor. “But what you can do is use artificial intelligence that can categorize things based on images, take a photo of an object or a group of objects. Click on those segments within a photo and then get instant results of what brand it is, where you can find it, how much the cost is.”
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The apps that do this, like Google Lens or Meta’s Jasper AI, can find estimated prices or similar items. You can even use ChatGPT to ask things like, “What’s in an average American kitchen?”
But Gallagher said you still have to fact-check it.
“I think it’s a great idea. I think I would let it be your starting point, not your ending point,” Gallagher said. “And so the AI mechanism may offer you photos and inventory. But that’s a first draft. You have to go after that and say, ‘Yes, yes, I agree with that.’ Or ‘no, that’s completely wrong.'”
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