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About 6 years ago I sat on a jury. I was told by the defense that the plaintiff, who was suing for being critically injured in a workplace scenario, was overst

About 6 years ago I sat on a jury. I was told by the defense that the plaintiff, who was suing for being critically injured in a workplace scenario, was overstating his injuries. They showed evidence that saw the plaintiff washing his car. The defense pointed out that there were timestamps on those car washing videos and each took place over 4 hours because he had to rest due to the pain from his sustained injuries. Aside from the facts of the case which were clearly in favor of the plaintiff, this attempt at deception pushed the jury to award more money than it likely would have otherwise. Now that storytime is out of the way, this particular AI reminds me of a photo taken at a lynching. https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/report/assets/imgs/14_crowd_desktop.jpg https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/report/assets/imgs/14_crow... If you obscure the top half of this photo from view, how does that change your perspective regarding what is going on at the time? IMO, recordings need to record what is, not what we believe we want to see.

notahacker 4y ago
On the flip side, it was possible to make a lynching look like a harmless social gathering with the technology of the era: point the camera selectively or take a pair of scissors to the image. Loss of timestamps is easily achieved by using any recorded media without timestamps, or any third-rate video editing software. Beria was airbrushed out of reproductions of photos that had circulated for years before he fell out of favour, but the revised images look convincing enough in the absence of that context. Cameras have never given a complete picture of everything going on (and people start worrying about panopticons with proposals that fall well short of that). Anybody that wants to show only what they want to see can choose whether or not to record or edit the recording after the fact. The actual use cases for tech that can decide whether something is worth recording in real time are likely to be comparatively mundane...

notahacker 4y ago

On the flip side, it was possible to make a lynching look like a harmless social gathering with the technology of the era: point the camera selectively or take a pair of scissors to the image. Loss of timestamps is easily achieved by using any recorded media without timestamps, or any third-rate video editing software. Beria was airbrushed out of reproductions of photos that had circulated for years before he fell out of favour, but the revised images look convincing enough in the absence of that context. Cameras have never given a complete picture of everything going on (and people start worrying about panopticons with proposals that fall well short of that). Anybody that wants to show only what they want to see can choose whether or not to record or edit the recording after the fact. The actual use cases for tech that can decide whether something is worth recording in real time are likely to be comparatively mundane...