German police¹ is using ChatGPT to fake images of injured police officers.

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@davidculley look how many "agitators" there are in the background. Oh noes! Nothing can stop the radical left! /s

Btw, I didn't know there was a dress code to being radical left, or is that the only color coat sold in Germany? I don't know these things, silly me.

[rainerzufall_le@mastodon.social]

@davidculley And of the two German unions for uniformed police (as opposed to detevtives), this is the slightly less problematic one

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@davidculley Why the “it’s just symbolic / AI” defense rings hollow

Because the harm isn’t about deception in a narrow sense (“this exact event happened”). It’s about legitimizing a power narrative:

We are the injured, reasonable authority; they are the threatening crowd.

AI just makes it cheaper, faster, and safer for institutions to manufacture that affect without accountability.

[nini@oldbytes.space]

@davidculley LLMs are the tools of fascism.

[davidculley@hachyderm.io]

I heavily edited my initial posting, which I think needed some clarification to not spread misinformation.

[alineblankertz@indieweb.social]

@davidculley

Imho this is not about what position we hold on football hooligans or on violence against police under different circumstances.

This is about whether the police can be trusted (ha!) if it uses AI fakes to “illustrate” acts of violence. There might even be (legal, moral or other) reasons for not using actual footage - but then just report on the facts without a photo. It’s that simple.

[davidculley@hachyderm.io]

@alineblankertz Yes! Better no picture than an AI-generated one.

While you were writing your comment, I completely revamped my initial post. I don't know if you already saw it. I had to admit that I wrote my initial post too rashly.

[werawelt@social.tchncs.de]

@davidculley Ich stimme dem zu, dass zur Darstellung der erlittenen Gewalt der #Polizei durch die Hooligans keine KI-Bilder von der Polizei oder anderen staatlichen Stellen verbreitet werden sollten. Niemand braucht sowas! Habe sowas hier auch schon von einer politischen Partei gesehen, die reale Politiker mit KI verfälschte. Ich bin grundsätzlich gegen "Fotos" und Videos von #KI. Diese Art der Verfälschung als angebliches Foto zerstört das Vertrauen in Fotos allgemein.
Heute glauben wir noch den Handy-Videos aus Minneanapolis. Doch werden wir das noch in 10 Jahren können? KI zerstört hiermit die #Demokratie.

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@davidculley

I was able to generate almost the exact same image and submitted a report that ChatGPT shouldn’t be making propaganda.

They answered and indicated no policy was violated. ‍️

[werawelt@social.tchncs.de]

@Su_G @davidculley

[silo_bear@mastodon.social]

@davidculley
Any reasonable person would see their treachery as a reason to withhold sympathy instead of giving it.

That is the true loss of the schemers. They shoot themselves in the foot with this.

[watcher2026@mastodon.social]

@werawelt @davidculley

> KI zerstört hiermit die Demokratie.

Sie zerstört noch viel mehr als nur die Demokratie: sie hat die Macht, den Glauben an alles zu zerstören, weil man schliesslich nichts mehr glauben kann. Es entsteht eine kafkaeske Welt.

[werawelt@social.tchncs.de]

@watcher2026
Ja!
@davidculley

[watcher2026@mastodon.social]

@nini @davidculley

The tools of anyone who wants to fool anyone about anything: communists, Islamicists, con artists, phishers, students who want to fool their examiners, crooks of any kind.

[davidculley@hachyderm.io]

@watcher2026 You're talking nonsense.

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@Su_G @davidculley
the image prompt and responses from the LLM are simply continuations of the tone I used, so it's merely agreeing with me, not stating policy.

[davidculley@hachyderm.io]

@Netraven I might have been responsible for spreading misinformation. The news is about soccer hooligans, not anti-genocide protestors. I edited my initial post since first publishing it. Sorry for any confusion.

But in your image, it even knew to use BE for Berlin cops. That's damning. Many videos of infamous Berlin police on social media.

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@davidculley ya, either way, it shouldn't be doing that. Wanna take bets if it will allow me to do the same thing for ICE?

[33dbm@lazysocial.de]

@watcher2026 @werawelt @davidculley
Darauf ist die Menschheit nicht vorbereitet

[a_goodall_spaceship@norden.social]

@gme @davidculley tacuisses! You startled the butterfly.