Netherlands: Authorities gather information on teen murder through artificial intelligence

The Dutch police announced today that received about a dozen “information” after the transmission of a deepfake, a fake video, shot with the help of artificial intelligencein which a 13-year-old “appears” to ask himself to investigate the murder of.

This is the first time in the world that this technique has been used in a police investigation.

“The fact that we received information is very positive”said Lillian van Daifenbode, his police spokeswoman Rotterdam, the day after this video was shown. “But we have not yet determined whether this information can be used,” he added.

The deepfake technique allows the creation of a “realistic” simulation of real people, replacing the face of an actor with another or a voice with another.

13-year-old footballer Cedar Soares was killed in 2003 while playing snowball fight with his friends in the parking lot of a metro station in Rotterdam. In the video released almost 20 years after his death, a teenager crosses a soccer field, holding a ball, surrounded by relatives, teachers and teammates, some of whom give him encouraging blows to the shoulder. At the end of the video, the child stops, looks at the camera and asks: “Do you know more? “Speak now.”

Soares was there “In the wrong place, at the wrong time”according to the police who hope that thanks to this new information they will be able to solve this unsolved case.

It seems now that next to the subway station where young Sentar was killed, drug traffickers deceived users, stealing their money and drugs. Police believe the teenager was accidentally murdered by the underworld and are looking for testimonies from people who knew about the scam or who happened to find out later about the tragedy.

Source: News Beast

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