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Man who videotaped himself BASE jumping in Yosemite arrested, says it was AI

If it "was AI" it should be easy enough for him to prove by pulling up his account on whatever AI video generation service he used and showing the generation in his account history.

(I do not think it was AI.)

10 hours agoby simonw

There are lots of places to legally BASE jump in Europe. You can even take a gondola to the jump point. But very very few legal options in the USA.

I wish there were more places to legally enjoy BASE jumping on US public lands.

10 hours agoby schaefer

Noteworthy that he claimed that when talking to an investigator prior to being charged. We'll see if he's willing to make the same claim in court. (He's apparently representing himself...)

11 hours agoby rafram

Gosh there's a lot of corollary evidence pointing to his guilt but this is likely going to become more and more common and force the use of a lot more technical forensic resources.

Finding an original copy on a go-pro would likely be pretty compelling evidence but this (and the more scary politically centered questions like this) are why I wish we had a way to build a durable chain of custody into these technologies. It is infeasible from everything I've seen but it would be a big win for society.

10 hours agoby munk-a

Was it legitimately his instagram account that posted the video?

If it was a brand new account, then it seems possible that it's a fake.

But if somebody also had to hack his account to make this video... I suppose it's not impossible but you'd really, really be pushing "reasonable doubt" to it's limits.

9 hours agoby jfengel

Why the hell is based jumping illegal?

10 hours agoby RobotToaster

Anyone who base jumps with a bulky videotape recorder instead of GoPro deserves to arrested ;)

10 hours agoby keysersoze33

Plausible denAIbility

11 hours agoby sorokod

Ha ... everything is AI now. No accountability.

10 hours agoby Mooshux

Oof. Risky move.

If the prosecution can prove it was legit, that's prison for sure.

10 hours agoby moralestapia

We have to plan for this to become more common in future.

You trying to start a union in your workplace? Expect video of you jacking off in public to leak online. Video of cop mercilessly beating a black guy? Inadmissible, could have been AI.

It will only get worse as video and audio generation get better and better.

10 hours agoby Devasta

>>A license plate reader detected his car entering the national park on Oct. 7 and leaving Oct. 8,

This flock stuff is b.a.d.

11 hours agoby onetokeoverthe