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Amnesty International Uses AI-Generated Images of Colombian Human Rights Abuses
Gizmodo via Yahoo ^ | May 1, 2023 | Mack DeGeurin and Kyle Barr

Posted on 05/01/2023 7:11:20 PM PDT by grundle

Leading global human rights organization Amnesty International is defending its choice to use an AI image generator to depict protests and police brutality in Colombia. Amnesty told Gizmodo it used an AI generator to depict human rights abuses so as to preserve the anonymity of vulnerable protestors. Experts fear, however, that the use of the tech could undermine the credibility of advocacy groups already besieged by authoritarian governments that cast doubt on the authenticity of real footage.

Amnesty International’s Norway regional account posted three images in a tweet thread over the weekend acknowledging the two-year anniversary of a major protest in Colombia where police brutalized protestors and committed “grave human rights violations,” the organization wrote. One image depicts a crowd of armor-clad police officers, another features an officer with a red splotch over his face. Another image shows a protestor being violently hauled away by police. The images, each of which feature their own clear telltale artifacts of AI-generated images also have a small note on the bottom left corner saying: “Illustrations produced by artificial intelligence.”

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: ai; amnesty; amnestyinternational; deepfake

1 posted on 05/01/2023 7:11:20 PM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle

“Credibility”


2 posted on 05/01/2023 7:13:59 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin
This makes it so easy to guess which side is telling the truth.

Hint: It's not Amnesty International.

3 posted on 05/01/2023 7:18:50 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: grundle

If they were being honest, they’d have had the AI simply replace the faces of the victims in actual photos with generic faces. Making up the images completely just raises the question of whether the abuses are even happening.


4 posted on 05/01/2023 7:23:33 PM PDT by Little Pig
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To: grundle

“Fake. But accurate.” Why don’t they just say that? /s


5 posted on 05/01/2023 7:25:55 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: grundle

Who did not see this happening?

All the Fake News will be AI generated, not just some of the fake news.


6 posted on 05/01/2023 7:31:53 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Shamnesty International.


7 posted on 05/01/2023 7:32:27 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: grundle

The last election was AI generated. Prove me wrong.


8 posted on 05/01/2023 7:32:39 PM PDT by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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To: grundle

And yet people flee Venezuela for Colombia.


9 posted on 05/01/2023 7:36:10 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: grundle

I can’t wait until “Pallywood” gets a hold of this!


10 posted on 05/01/2023 8:49:18 PM PDT by montag813
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To: grundle

Amnesty International = Homosexual Depravity


11 posted on 05/02/2023 4:08:19 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: grundle
I've got news for the people of Earth. From here on out, it's ALL going to be fake. AI generated fake news, fake photos, fake videos, fake social media posts, fake meat, fake women, fake men, fake doctors, fake food, false gods...


12 posted on 05/02/2023 4:13:58 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: grundle

When real proof ain’t there, let the computer generate some fake “proof” for you...the whole world is becoming a computer-generated lie...


13 posted on 05/02/2023 5:14:08 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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