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I'm not sure why people are using AI for a task far better/easier done with a normal image editor. The badge could have been just superimposed at the top; it doesn't have to look like it was part of the original image. And if the photo carried legal implications (not this time), AI alteration would ruin that.

Edit. I'm pretty sure every AI photo editing app out there explicitly advertises that they use AI. Nobody wants to hide that feature. So I rather doubt the police claim that they thought they were using a normal photoshop app.



“Take this picture and add the badge from foo bar police” is a lot easier than using any traditional image editor.


Any savings in time or effort would be consumed by the subsequent public relations fallout and media response though, and probably then some.


Or they just used the default photo editing app on Windows or Mac, which both use AI now.




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