Comment by syrrim
3 years ago
The recent kyle rittenhouse trial had an element that hinged on whether apple's current image upscaling algorithm uses AI, and hence whether what you could see in the picture was at all reliable. The court system is already aware of and capable of dealing with these eventualities.
“Aware of” does not necessarily mean “capable of dealing with”. Forensics is generally bad science, yet gets admitted into court all the time. This occurs despite many legal textbooks, papers, and court opinions highlighting the deficiencies.
The question was more general, if the iPad zooming introduced any different pixels (e.g. a purple pixel between red and blue). Or, "uncharged pickles" as the judge put it.
It doesn't even need AI to be problematic. Pinch-zoom has no business being used in the courtroom as it inherently can introduce issues. However, a fixed integer ratio blowup of the image shouldn't be problematic. (2:1 is fine. 1.9:1 inherently can't guarantee it doesn't introduce artifacts.)
Well it's not capable of dealing with it because they found apple's zoom was unreliable and it contributed to the guy getting off
The guy got off because he was legitimately acting in self-defense.