People Are Using AI to Falsely Identify the Federal Agent Who Shot Renee Good

People Are Using AI to Falsely Identify the Federal Agent Who Shot Renee Good

Online detectives are inaccurately claiming to have identified the federal agent who shot and killed a 37-year-old woman in Minnesota based on AI-manipulated images.

https://www.wired.com/story/people-are-using-ai-to-falsely-identify-the-federal-agent-who-shot-renee-good/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

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The videos of the incident shared on social media in the moments after the shooting did not include any footage of any of the masked ICE agents with their masks off. However, multiple images showing an unmasked agent began circulating on the internet within hours of the shooting.

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"AI-powered enhancement has a tendency to hallucinate facial details leading to an enhanced image that may be visually clear, but that may also be devoid of reality with respect to biometric identification," Hany Farid, a UC-Berkeley professor who has in the past studied AI's ability to enhance facial images, tells WIRED. "In this situation where half of the face is obscured, AI, or any other technique, is not, in my opinion, able to accurately reconstruct the facial identity."

WIRED has confirmed that two of the names circulating don’t appear to be immediately connected to anyone associated with ICE. While many of the posts sharing these AI images have limited engagement, some have gained significant traction.

One of the names shared online without evidence is Steve Grove, the CEO and publisher of the Minnesota Star Tribune, who previously worked in Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s administration. “We are currently monitoring a coordinated online disinformation campaign incorrectly identifying the ICE agent involved in yesterday’s shooting,” Chris Iles, vice president of communications at the Star Tribune, tells WIRED. “To be clear, the ICE agent has no known affiliation with the Minnesota Star Tribune and is certainly not our publisher and CEO Steve Grove.”

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Thank gawd that Kristi Noem seems to have accidentally doxxed him. I'm not sure she got it right, either. They look significantly different to me.