Arrested with AI
Synthetic video, including deepfakes, has entered the courtroom in Arapahoe County, Colorado, appearing both as submitted as CCTV evidence and within body-worn camera footage. Similar anatomical anomalies—particularly irregular finger counts—have been widely documented in synthetic and AI-generated imagery. A prominent example includes early AI-generated images depicting Ariana Grande with six fingers, an artifact frequently cited in discussions of generative model failures involving hands and fine motor anatomy. The presence of comparable anomalies in Bodycam 64 and Bodycam 65 from the case’s discovery are therefore consistent with known failure modes observed in artificially generated or altered visual media.