Re:Rittenhouse trial judge still baffled by pinch-to-zoom
by HWR_14 on Sunday November 14, 2021 @12:30AM
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Were they important questions? Is the defense arguing that the video didn't really show the defendant?
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Re:Rittenhouse trial judge still baffled by pinch-to-zoom
by pessimizer on Sunday November 14, 2021 @12:47AM
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IIRC the debate is about whether one of the people Rittenhouse shot was grabbing the barrel of the gun. There's no DNA on the gun, although there are burns etc. on his hand, and on the video, it maybe or maybe not looks like he is.
It's more of the mutual hemming and hawing typical of the news I've been getting about the paid participants in this trial (the lawyers and the judge.)
It certainly would be good for the person reporting on the trial to at least discuss the reasons why it isn't an entirely crazy question. Perspective and shadows could definitely be distorted by AI enhancement, and the angle is weird. It would also be an excuse for the author to talk about actual examples of AI/image enhancement creativity, like numbers being changed. I remember when Xerox printers/scanners were doing that (changing numbers on scans)[*], and I never imagined that problem would become pervasive in a lot more contexts in the near future.