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German police¹ is using ChatGPT to fake images of injured police officers.
The German union of police officers (GdP²) condemns violence … against police officers. 😡
They are the ones who beat up anyone who protests against fossil fuels or genocide, and then they fake their propaganda using GenAI to incite against "violent radical leftists".
¹ Sachsen, not even the infamous Berlin police
² which is also the source of this image, see https://www.gdp.de/sachsen/
@davidculley While in #Germany this is done by the Union of #Police Officers in #Italy the police itself does manipulate photos with #ai.
@davidculley
Not to forget, the injured policemen statistics include the ones who have sprained their ankle when exiting their vehicle or tripped over stuff or just feel down without anyone's involvement.
@davidculley
German #Police are completely undermining their own credibility - as you say. With one #AI-generated image they have removed credibility from all police-presented ‘ #evidence’ - both future and past. That they can’t see this is astonishing. Not rocket science! More or some ethics training urgently needed. 😐
“If we allow police to use AI-generated images in their press releases, then we cannot believe them anything anymore at all. If people still believe them, anyway.”
Also amazing that their legal dept would clear this & not see the implications. 😐
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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.
@davidculley
Thanks for adding the clarification!
Still, I find the AI generation of what is supposed to look like evidence of violence against the police outrageous, even in cases where there was violence against a police officer. I mean, in fact, I find the use of AI to provide something that looks like evidence terrible in any case; it is just worse if by a public institution, and even worse if supposedly documenting violence.
@davidculley "Since we didn't have any actual injured officers, we had to fake some."
@wakame In a tiny footnote that they added >> after several people complained <<, they even write:
> Zur Verdeutlichung und Transparenz weisen wir noch einmal darauf hin, dass es sich bei der Darstellung um ein KI-generiertes Bild handelt, welches nicht die eigentliche Einsatzsituation vorgeben soll.
Translation: "To make it clear, and for transparency, we point out again that the image is AI-generated and not supposed to show what truly happened."
What the fuck?!
1. They admit to lying.
2. Instead of removing their lies (or not posting them in the first place), they add a teeny tiny footnote, saying not to believe what they post.
Source: https://www.gdp.de/sachsen/de/stories/2026/01/gewalt-im-fussballspiel-magdeburg-gegen-dresden
