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SolRo - 2019-08-17

This being near the duped onion news ‘tried as a black man’ submission gave me a naive but interesting idea.

Sufficiently advanced Deepfake and augmented reality technologies could be used to make trials significantly more impartial. If judges and jurors cannot see the true identities of defendants, including names gender and race, during a trial then it would be much harder to have biased outcomes, even subconsciously.

Could even be used for witness and victim testimony, as people are also biased to trust sympathize with certain people.


casualcollapse - 2019-08-17

You should be in law. I really love this idea


Monkey Napoleon - 2019-08-17

While I agree that would be cool, it might be worth looking into how people react to uncanny valley witnesses. I suspect that seeing a witness whose face is sliding around eerily and is not color / lighting matched to their surroundings might have an even worse effect than whatever inherent bias jurors might have.

FYI it took an artist probably the better part of a week to create just the little Adele snippet from this video. The Tom Cruise clip at ~ 0:20 was created by a youtube "professional" CGI company, it took them several days, and it kind of looks like garbage.

It'll keep getting better, but right now the time and computational investment to get even remotely believable results is pretty insane.


SolRo - 2019-08-18

The idea I had was more towards making people look sort of human shaped and able to express human facial and physical emotions but definitely not human. Like a courtroom full of Gumby shaped stick people.

Hell I’m not even sure emotion is a good thing to represent. Why should sociopaths with good acting skills get look better to a jury than someone who can’t handle the situation? I’ve heard too many “they looked/acted guilty” quips from idiotic jurors after some high profile cases.


Robin Kestrel - 2019-08-17

There never was a good ole day when you could 100% trust something you heard, saw, or read. There’s a ton of pre-internet stuff I thought was true that turned out to be mostly bullshit, and I’m pretty sure the problem predates the printing press and photography, as well.

Technology, and social media in particular, just makes this human flaw easier to exploit.


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