10 Things in Tech You Need to Know Today, Friday, Jan. 7
Happy Friday, readers. Insider has found documents showing that police departments use fake social media accounts during investigations, and BMW just unveiled a color-changing car.
Shall we?
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1. Documents show police departments create fake social media accounts using AI-generated images. An Insider investigation found that despite platforms’ rules against doing so, police departments from New York to Ohio have been trained to create fake Facebook and Instagram accounts to assist in investigations.
- Documents obtained by Insider describe tools law-enforcement officials can use to create accounts, like a fake name generator, a username generator, and a This Person Does Not Exist tool, which creates images of human faces using AI.
- In videos posted to social media, the course’s instructor, an active-duty police officer
