Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases

WarOnPrivacy

per ft.com: https://archive.fo/BIOej [The Derbyshire Police] declined to give more detail about what the evidential material consisted of. The term [evidential material] can be used to describe witness statements.

bobthepanda

i do wonder, that in the age where we have image and video creation out of the bag, whether or not this will result in whole classes of evidence becoming completely unreliable.

radicaldreamer

I wonder how many people have been unjustly imprisoned between planted evidence, made up evidence, and illegal parallel construction…

tim-tday

Maybe use the word “falsify”?

tamimio

Can we know the motivation? Will it get them a bonus at the end of the year? Was it something common in the cases, maybe similar victims or something else?

constableclaude

The headline evokes ideas of creating a video of a suspect perpetrating the crime but what I think is much more likely is the police officer used AI to enhance an image in a way that they considered innocuous, e.g: a photo was blurry so they “enhanced” it. Since “enhancing” is letting AI fill in the gaps it would be using AI to “create evidence”. Regardless of what they did, tampering with evidence is completely unacceptable and should result in their dismissal and conviction but I don’t think the story will transpire to be as attention grabbing. A well meaning idiot could convince themselves that enhancing evidence is somehow justifiable whereas it would be almost impossible for even the most corrupt moron to justify creating evidence out of thin air. Creating evidence out of thin air would be ridiculous because evidence is available to the defence who would be able to immediately identify if an image or video had been created (as the defendant would be able to recognize what they do or did not do) whereas “enhancing” an image could be easily spotted by other officers. “How come this photo is clearer than the last time I saw it?” “Oh I ran it through ChatGPT to clean it up! Neat, eh? Just like on CSI!”

sudonem

I would be interested in knowing both what kind of fabrication occurred, but perhaps I’m not curious about how it was discovered? Did the defense use some sort of tool to debunk? Was it just an obvious deepfake etc? Or was it the officer’s ineptitude that got him caught?

newaccountman2

police gonna police

dofm

I saw this headline, saw that it was Sky news, thought "oh a British policeman? Bet it was Derbyshire police". There you go.

sveme

Why police (and media) cameras aren‘t forced to use camera hardware signing, aka content credentials, is beyond me.