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Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works (gizmodo.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A judge in Washington state has blocked video evidence that’s been “AI-enhanced” from being submitted in a triple murder trial. And that’s a good thing, given the fact that too many people seem to think applying an AI filter can give them access to secret visual data.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Hold up. Digital zoom is, in all the cases I'm currently aware of, just cropping the available data. That's not reconstruction, it's just losing data.

Otherwise, yep, I'm with you there.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

See this follow up:

https://lemmy.world/comment/9061929

Digital zoom makes the image bigger but without adding any detail (because it can't). People somehow still think this will allow you to see small details that were not captured in the original image.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

Also since companies are adding AI to everything, sometimes when you think you're just doing a digital zoom you're actually getting AI upscaling.

There was a court case not long ago where the prosecution wasn't allowed to pinch-to-zoom evidence photos on an iPad for the jury, because the zoom algorithm creates new information that wasn't there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

There's a specific type of digital zoom which captures multiple frames and takes advantage of motion between frames (plus inertial sensor movement data) to interpolate to get higher detail. This is rather limited because you need a lot of sharp successive frames just to get a solid 2-3x resolution with minimal extra noise.