FBI Releases Blurry Charlie Kirk Shooting Suspect Photo; AI ‘Enhancements’ Unreliable

The Verge •

Today the FBI posted two blurry surveillance photos of a person of interest in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk. Social-media users quickly shared AI-upscaled “enhancements” (via X’s Grok, ChatGPT, etc.), but those images are inferred reconstructions, not evidence—AI fills gaps and often hallucinates (past depixelations altered race or added features). Eye-catching, yes; reliable for a manhunt, no.

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