I'm a little surprised zoo animals aren't chipped with some kind of beacon locator for incidents such as these.
What sort of size do you think that would be?
Somewhat smaller than a regular airtag.
South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf
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Re: South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf
#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, not really. There was a real wolf and the person dusturbed the operation. "South Korean police have arrested a man for sharing an AI-generated image that misled authorities who were searching for a wolf that had broken out of a zoo in Daejeon city. The 40-year-old unnamed man is accused of disrupting the search by creating and distributing a fake photo purporting to show Neukgu, the wolf, trotting down a road int…
what an incredibly dumb thread this is. OP pointed out something amusing and it's being ruined by completely useless pedantry
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you stipulate that everyone must be relaxing at the time, sure. But the core concept of crying wolf is IMO simply a false alert with no particular constraints placed on those responding. I think in this case it simultaneously qualifies as crying wolf as well as misdirection.
But this isn't a false alert. The alert is real, people just got misdirected.
Must not have paid close attention to the details of the story.
Re: South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf
#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
Intent or not, it did disturb as it misslead. And .. how can one imagine not disturb a search, when posting a wrong location?
Intent or not, disturbing the search or not, it's silly that the authorities would arrest a civilian because of their own incompetence.
That's the true core of the story. Was the man truly trying to mislead authorities or is it more about authorities using the man as a scapegoat to hide their incompetence.
Re: South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf
#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
Intent or not, disturbing the search or not, it's silly that the authorities would arrest a civilian because of their own incompetence.
That's the true core of the story. Was the man truly trying to mislead authorities or is it more about authorities using the man as a scapegoat to hide their incompetence.
They were searching for a wolf. (Not really a standard task)
They don't have total surveillance, so also rely on public information
- a citicien posts information about the location of the wolf, a picture!
- authorities adopt their search based on that picture
Where is the incompetence here?
Re: South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf
#156Are you trying to tell me, in this the year of our lord 2026, somebody has been (rightfully or wrongfully) arrested for literally ‘crying wolf’? There’s something hilariously poetic about a ~2,500 year old fable being relevant today, because of AI.
The world can't be that advanced when you have people shoving their religious imaginary friends in every sentence and then feigning victimhood for having it called out.
Re: South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf
#157It sounds like he didn’t actually file a false police report. They don’t even say they asked him whether it’s true. It seems the police just read a post by a random person on the internet, assumed it’s true, then arrested him when it wasn’t. The article is devastatingly light on info, though, so I can’t be sure.
I can't decide how I feel about this. The thing is, there's basically no reason to create this photo other than to mislead the authorities. It's purposefully blurry and not aesthetically pleasing. I cannot come up with any plausible artistic intent. This could have happened without AI. Imagine if the police were trying to catch a serial killer, and I posted on Twitter that I saw him in a small town in Idaho or wherev…
I like this reply. It's nuanced. This guy didn't post that picture to be helpful. He did it to troll, and trolling is cruelty, and defending cruelty is immoral.
Re: South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf
#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's the true core of the story. Was the man truly trying to mislead authorities or is it more about authorities using the man as a scapegoat to hide their incompetence.
They were searching for a wolf. (Not really a standard task) They don't have total surveillance, so also rely on public information - a citicien posts information about the location of the wolf, a picture! - authorities adopt their search based on that picture Where is the incompetence here?
I swear, some commenters here think "the government is incompetent" is an axiom and work backward from there to fill in the details.
Re: South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf
#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
To make a shooped image good enough to fool the police into think they're looking at a completely real picture, you'd think it would take a reasonable amount of skill. If nothing else you need an exact match picture in terms of lighting and perspective.
I guess people here are too young to remember things like the WTC plane guy. Half the people online thought it was genuine, while he did it for the lulz in a few minutes. Nobody cared about inconsistent lighting and perspective. Same way most people don't care about the obvious hallmarks of diffusion model generated pictures today.
I'm not too young. I can't remember if I thought it was real at the time, but if I did, I give myself a pass since I was probably viewing it on a 15 inch CRT at 1024x768.
Because we're talking about the ease of Photoshopping a wolf into a scene, I think it's also worth pointing out that floating objects are a lot easier to work with than grounded objects, since cast shadows and bounce lighting are less of an issue. Having said that, it would still require some basic skill to achieve the WTC image which I think you're discounting. You'd need a working knowledge of layers, masks, and the lasso tool, which already would have placed it out of reach for most people at the time. Online resources were much more scarce, so I wouldn't be surprised if this guy was a hobbyist photographer or graphic designer. It definitely wouldn't have been achievable in a few minutes for the average person, and doing the same thing with a wolf would have been far more difficult, and well outside the realm of possibility for anyone who wasn't an expert.
Re: South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf
#160Title should be "Man arrested for deceptive and antisocial behavior". The only reason you are seeing this right now is because it has AI in the title.
That's like saying "guns don't kill people, people do". We know that's bologna and you can't just ignore Weapon Instrumentality
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