Pennsylvania woman created deepfake images to get daughter's rivals kicked off cheer squad

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Fascinating update on this old story:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/11/she-was-accused-of-faking-an-incriminating-video-of-teenage-cheerleaders-she-was-arrested-outcast-and-condemned-the-problem-nothing-was-fake-after-all

The mother was a busybody, it looks like, but the pictures were in fact real.

my favorite part is that the cops made a serious public announcement of something based entirely off the word of a 17 year old, with no, ya know, evidence and then when they found out the truth, didn't say sh**t to anybody (other than the DA).

And the lead officer on the case turned out to be a pedophile who ended up going to prison for possession of child pornography.