This is a mess.
What Netflix did
Netflix used images that strongly appear to have been generated or manipulated by AI in a recent documentary about a 2010 murder plot in Canada involving a woman named Jennifer Pan.
The streaming service used the photo to describe her “bubbly, happy, confident, and very sincere” personality, as her high school friend Nam Nguyen described her.
The image shown around the 28-minute mark of Netflix’s “What Jennifer Did” has all the hallmarks of an AI-generated photo, from jumbled hands and fingers to deformed facial features and deformed objects in the background. It is. Front teeth too long.
AI true crime
Needless to say, the use of generative AI to portray real people in true crime documentaries may raise some eyebrows. We’ve come across examples where companies have come up with fictional AI-generated materials as set decorations. A recent episode of HBO’s “True Detective” featured a strange AI-generated poster in the background of the shot. But the use of technology to generate photos of real people, especially those who are still in prison and will only be eligible for parole around 2040, should set off alarm bells.
This isn’t making up a fictional story for entertainment. This is playing with the fabric of reality itself and manipulating the true story of what actually happened.
Futurism has reached out to Netflix for comment.
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