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… means I can show the numbers from 0 to 10 with my fingers. But base 10 means I only have digits from 0 to 9.

… would 10 fingers not be a better argument for base 11?

Yes, I think I am with you. That search should not have happened (and consequently was ruled unlawful by a court afterwards). But it should not have happened in the first place.

I hope (but do not know) that in the Schwachkopf-case, they just took the shortcut via insult instead of opening an investigation for the Nazi stuff.

But we don’t know that.

I believe, that we can express our opinions and discuss them without insulting people (in the legal sense). And I hope, that prosecutors do not lightly investigate each Schwachkopf they find on the internet.

And for all the other cases, the courts need to be involved.

Please tell me more about that much better system.

And probably also tell it to some lawmakers. But start with me.

There is a strong hint in the search warrant, that they knew about the distribution of Nazi materials.

Just calling someone Schwachkopf doesn’t get prosecutors to investigate further.

Yes, I agree.

But I can not see how the legal framework could be better. Insults are illegal. Prosecution needs to look into all reported cases.

Germany really did not. Where do you get such nonsense?

The guy was sentenced for distributing forbidden Nazi materials.

The initial insult investigation was dropped, because of it being insignificant.

No authority was used (or misused). Anybody can report a crime and prosecution is required, by law, to investigate.

Regarding the Pinocchio thing: Local police said „that‘s probably insult“ and sent it to public prosecutors. Public prosecutors investigated and said „nope, free speech“.

I really don’t see the problem.

Because it is wrong. Lev is pegged since 1999.

And if you (or the first comment author) had read the article, then you would immediately have identified the problem with the comment.

> Bulgaria is unusual in that it pegged its currency, the lev, to the euro right from the beginning of monetary union in 1999, even before it joined the European Union in 2007.

Apparently, they did not use that control in the last 26 years.

This reply makes the mootest point of all the moot points.

There are only 144 Bytes in a PhotoDNA hash and they are used to identify the whole picture. This is definitely not enough data to identify a face reliably.

The proposed AI does not identify people and it will not report that it "found" the person in the training data. It does not know. And it won't tell you.

Assume twins, one is in the training data, one isn't. The one in the training data has a scar, the other one does not. We "invert" a picture of the twin without the scar and who is not in the training set. As you explained, the resulting image will have the twin from the data set including a highly detailed picture of the scar. And for some reason, that is a good thing.

You are attributing more to this AI than it conceivably can do. Even going as far as finding an excuse for putting false or unfounded data.

It is tremendously important to make clear: most (if not all) of current AI technology is not fit for forensic analysis beyond guiding humans in their own analysis.

You can certainly not produce inversions. The data that is left in the hash is not enough to produce anything vaguely photorealistic.

However, you can fill the gaps and generate photorealistic photos that fit to the extremely reduced information you get from the hash. You are generating believable (as defined by the training data) photos that fit the hash.

That’s a huge difference.

Statements like yours are extremely dangerous. Without proper understanding of what GenAI can and can not do, people start relying on things that are not there.

Imagine your photorealistic inversion AI putting a mole or a wrinkle in the face of somebody without any foundation in the actual hash. Just because it fits better to the trained data. Explain that to the judge, when the person with just the right facial features sits in front of them.