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Melissa Sims said her nightmare began after she called police during an argument with her boyfriend, when she said he allegedly ransacked her home.

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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 63 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

she said her boyfriend created an AI-generated text that called him names and made disparaging comments.

Do you really need AI for that

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 26 points 2 weeks ago

Well some people need it for everything.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He made photos and videos as well

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Did he? I read the article and it seemed to omit any mention of that. It's kind of implied by the word 'deepfake' but the exact role AI may have had here is not clear to me.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

I guess they were speaking in general. I retract my previous statement.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Right? Seems like abuse with extra steps.

[–] RegularJoe@lemmy.world 54 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

After eight months of legal wrangling by her attorney, prosecutors dropped the bond violation charge against her. And, last month, she went to trial on the battery charge and was acquitted.

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 37 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

After eight months of legal wrangling by her attorney, prosecutors dropped the bond violation charge against her.

How was this not handled within 24 hours by checking the fucking phone records??

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 weeks ago

You want authorities to investigate? Phaw!

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Because that takes more time and actual work. By forcing her to trial, prosecutors and police get to up their numbers.

[–] hanrahan@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

Not rich enough

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Most messaging services that people use these days aren’t showing up in “phone records”.

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

she said her boyfriend created an AI-generated text that called him names and made disparaging comments.

Texts would show up on phone records.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“Text” is almost always used no matter what actual messaging service was used.

Also how would AI have sent a SMS to his phone from her? It was likely an ai generated screenshot of messages.

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also how would AI have sent a SMS to his phone from her?

It's almost like that's my point.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au -1 points 1 week ago

But “phone records”, whatever that means, won’t show telegram/imessage/signal/fb messenger/etc messages.

[–] GoblinGreg@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

The article doesn't make mention of it, but I hope the boyfriend faced criminal charges for that.

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Welcome to fascism. Anyone (== law enforcement) will be able to produce fake evidence and send you to prison, or worse.