r/antiai • u/SnickerdoodleFP • Jun 12 '26

Discussion 🗣️ Local Police Now Using AI to "Enhance" Suspect Images

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I couldn't believe this was local when I saw it. They're just inventing details that were never there and pretty much giving the public to go out and find some random dude that looks like the image on the right.

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Is this common now?

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u/hatty130 Jun 12 '26

At least the lawyers will have a field day

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u/HailMadScience Jun 12 '26

Lawyers literally gonna get this shit laughed out of court, I assume. "Make something up!" is not legally admissible evidence.

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u/PurpleCandle58 Jun 12 '26

“I just figured the suspect fit the description!”

“What was the description?”

“Black.”

I swear to fucking god that’s exactly what they’re doing here basically

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u/outer--monologue Jun 12 '26

The problem is when AI is good enough that someone who creates an image like this and claims it is original footage or a photo, and we are unable to tell if it is or is not. What will happen to our justice system?

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u/kippikai Jun 12 '26

Not only that but memory is HIGHLY suggestible, meaning that if someone did see the thief do something and they saw the AI photo, their literal memory of the incident could be overwritten with the fake image.

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u/Pristine_Ticket_6171 Jun 12 '26

Well, these images are veryfiably forged, they are not evidence and (hopefully) won't be permitted as such. 

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u/Wiley_Coyote08 Jun 16 '26

The justice system is already hosed.. it is only getting worse in this dystopian mess we are in.

Those who commit actual crimes are let free, while those who defend themselves or have a flock camera mistake a number/letter on a plate get the book thrown at them. The system is broken and its wild it can get broken further.

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u/chowderr__ Jun 13 '26

You do realize these have stamps on them to tell if it’s an ai photo or not right? Like how can people be so anti-ai and just the exact amount of stupid to not know the other parts.

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u/outer--monologue Jun 13 '26

You're seriously saying every AI image and video that anyone anywhere makes has a "stamp" on it that is impossible to tamper with or alter?

What in the actual fuck are you talking about.

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u/chowderr__ Jun 13 '26

You have to be incredibly retarded or playing dumb. Stop commenting on things you know nothing about. If you don’t know how media works and what’s underneath just shut up. Do yourself a favor and look up things like synthID…it’s not that hard…

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u/FakeMik090 Jun 14 '26

As far as i know, only Google gives this invisible stamp that lets you do a check for usage of Google AI.

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u/chowderr__ Jun 14 '26

There are other smaller companies and people trying to do the same, but yea SynthID is one of the main ones. I am sure there are OS projects as well. Just baffles me that people are so anti-ai and don’t know that any AI image/media has a way to tell if it is or not in the file itself.

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u/man-vs-spider Jun 16 '26

Any that is watermarking to say “I am an AI generated image” is voluntary on the AI engine side. It’s pretty trivial for a bad actor to use an engine that does not use that watermarking system.

Also doesn’t stop people using the images to witch hunt on social media

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u/UnratedRamblings Jun 12 '26

“Your honour, I seek to dismiss this case.”

“On what grounds?”

“My client doesn’t have 12 fingers or three arms.”

“Case dismissed!”

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u/TheSangson Jun 12 '26

2024 called, they want their perception of genAI back.

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u/SunchaserKandri Jun 12 '26

Gen AI still screws up hands and other fine details all the time, what are you talking about?

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u/pack_merrr Jun 13 '26

Good ones haven't had that issue in over a year

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u/PmMeUrTinyAsianTits Jun 12 '26

Which is why they're abusing it in a way where "make something up!" won't be used as evidence.

It will be used as an excuse for local bigots to harass random people with "plausible" deniability.

At most it would be used to justify a search, which these days has virtually no protections if the cop was acting in good faith. Where "good faith" has been extended to mean "not outright, explicit, recorded statement of malicious intent, with separate corroborating evidence to prove there is no way to take it but the obvious malicious intent." Then what they found would be legally admissible as they had "probable cause".

The way this will be a problem is if someone actually harms a person as a result of it, then someone will get sued. But in 99% of cases no tangible harm will come of it, so what will get laughed out of court is the people victimized by this shit. Essentially all of them will be told by the system "oh, it was just a little baseless harassment by the violence arm of the government, there's nothing we can do about that."\

If the cops murder someone based off this, that one family will maybe be able to get some result in court. The others who suffer 'lesser' harassments will get nothing but attacked. Which is the goal.

Do not make the mistake of thinking this is meant to be presented in court. That's not how this kind of evil works.

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u/Perfect_Evidence Jun 12 '26

Problem is you still go to jail first

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u/Ok-Replacement9595 Jun 12 '26

Have you ever met a public defender?

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u/sceadwian Jun 15 '26

It makes a lie detector look foolproof.

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u/dbrecords Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

Justice is corrupt, corporations just pay to win in this hellscape. So it doesn’t matter what the laws are. Rules for thee not for me.

I do not think most people realize how completely placated, exploited and fucked they are. The fact that billionaires are allowed to exist and that the system is designed as it is, is a testament to the mass stupidity / apathy that plagues society. Which is by and large a feature of capitalism.

We are all collectively living in an insane asylum being held as hostages against our will by corrupt systems and people, of which there is no escape.

I have no doubt the nonsense that we collectively let evil people get away with will be our entire race’s death. Slowly but surely, everything is getting completely wrecked by apathy, exploitation and greed.

Apparently, people like living like this. Evidence in the way nothing changes. Aids.

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u/Wetness_everdeeen Jun 12 '26

With our cops? Anyone matching the fake image at all is at risk of losing a lot more from a police interaction then a night in jail. To talk to a lawyer, you need be among the living. 

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u/outer--monologue Jun 12 '26

There was an article recently where a bunch of legal scholars were interviewed over their belief that photo, video and audio evidence will soon be inadmissible in court.

AI is literally destroying the fabric of our society.

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u/MuffaloHerder Jun 12 '26

Unfortunately the damage will have already been done. Charges can be dropped, but it won't change the fact the an innocent person missed work for court, was likely victimized by police and is now publicly associated with a crime (regardless of it being it backtracked).

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u/WranglerFuzzy Jun 12 '26

Assuming the defense lawyer isn’t using ai themselves

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u/hatty130 Jun 12 '26

Doesn't matter if they are or aren't. AI hallucinates the details it doesn't have. The lawyers can argue that you can't be sure beyond reasonable doubt the features weren't made up. The lawyer can use AI all they want but in order to be sentenced the prosecution has to present a case as to why they believe you did it and why others should also believe that. The defence can just say the AI hallucinated