As the saying goes: seeing is believing, hearing is empty. But is the evidence that we "believe true" really the truth?
The BBC's new drama "Truth Capture" The Capture Season 1 explores that with the rapid development of technology, the video evidence relied on by judicial trials may be tampered with, that is, the "rod and guilt" mentioned in the play, using video surveillance loopholes The perfect editing of the film is used by the beneficiaries. Innocent people suffer unwarranted charges and become victims of national anti-terrorism security.
The rhythm of this drama is very fast, and it is very refreshing to catch up. After finishing 6 episodes in one breath, it is really exciting to reverse and reverse again.
At the beginning of the play, a soldier, Sean, served two rounds in Afghanistan and one round in Iraq, and also won the honor of first class. He was convicted of murder for the one-shot death of a Taliban prisoner of war in Afghanistan, which was recorded on a fellow soldier's helmet-mounted camera.
In the video he shouted: "Fuck me back".
Sean insists the statement was made because the prisoner of war threatened him, not his comrade who recorded the video.
Later, he was exonerated due to the defects of the video evidence, that is, with the increase of the video shooting time of the helmet camera, it will cause "sound and picture out of synchronization", and the audio will lag behind the video picture.
After that, Sean and Hannah, the lawyer who defended him, fell in love with each other. After the two kissed, they parted reluctantly.
All of this was captured on video surveillance in the public block, which showed Sean beating and kidnapping Hannah after a bus passed by.
Hannah's bizarre disappearance and an astonishing turn in Sean's life. He was exonerated for a loophole in video evidence and re-arrested for video surveillance, embroiled in a complex multi-party conspiracy battle.
Although Sean repeatedly stressed that the video was fake, he watched Hannah get on the bus and leave, and what happened after the video didn't happen at all.
But in the face of conclusive video evidence, no one would believe him.
"Only courts and public toilets are not monitored." The ubiquitous video surveillance in London dominates the development of the plot, and Rachel, a senior investigator who originally believed in video evidence, also experienced bizarre things.
Rachel clearly saw the taxi parked at 48 Eaton Plaza in the video surveillance room. Two unidentified men brought Sean into the building, while her two subordinates at the scene insisted that they could not see anything. , no taxis, no Sean...
Rachel began to believe Sean's words. Seeing is not necessarily believing. Real-time video can't be plausible, but if it's not real-time, the passing of the bus and the passing of the truck are all perfect editing points. When AI changes faces, the video is still equal to Is it the truth?
The idea of this drama is probably to explore the boundary between artificial intelligence technology and human ethics. This is not an alarmist. After all, the application of AI technology for seamless face changing has become a reality. For example, pornographic videos of female stars changing their faces are sold, and Some time ago, the face-changing software ZAO, which exploded overnight, was suspected of seriously infringing on user privacy.
Video is manipulated, technology is abused, can you still believe what you see? The truth you see may be artificially screened, and innocent people may be "changed faces" and "criminal", with disastrous consequences.
Suddenly thinking of the documentary "The Fourth Citizen" based on the "Prism Gate" incident, Snowden said:
There is nothing wrong with you, but you can be the object of suspicion, perhaps just because of a wrong call. They can then use the program to scrutinize all your past decisions and vet all the friends you've spoken to. Once you are connected to the network, you can authenticate your machine. No matter what measures you take, you can't be safe.
In the post-truth era, how should the boundaries between technology and ethics, procedural justice and substantive justice, national security and personal privacy be weighed and restricted? Seeing is not necessarily believing, and in the name of justice one may do unscrupulous things, and no one is innocent.
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