Westbrook police say they mistakenly posted AI-generated drug seizure photo

We're very close to the point where no one is going to be able to make out what is an AI image and what is not and it's already fucking up a lot of stuff and it's going to get much worse.

> In a follow-up post Tuesday morning, the department denied that AI had been used to generate the photo, saying the packaging may depict words in “gibberish” because the drugs are illicit.

> “The packaging is most likely foreign, and it is possible that whoever made the packaging used AI to make a clearly knock-off package,” the post read.

Ah, cool, so they went into defense mode, saying whatever would get them off the hook, without actually verifying anything. I think when regular people do that, we call them compulsive liars, or narcissists, and tend to distrust them.