Guy 1: Can you enhance that grainy camera picture so I can make out that license plate so I can read it? Even though the license plate is just two pixels in the original recording?
Guy 2: Sure. I’ll just use this wondertech to… ah, there you go. One click did it.
I’d like a cop show that does this but it’s conventional AI and it confidently makes up a licence plate but the cops take it seriously and commit to tracking it down.
And there should be maybe a few instances of people trying to explain in various ways “this is AI, the letters and numbers are made up, that car has like a 0.000001% chance of having had that specific random licence plate, please, stop looking for it, you’re being dumb” then the cops pretend like they understood and had an interesting conversation then they go right back to tracking the generated license plate to the best of their ability. A bit like cops who go on to order polygraphs the day after their nephew passionately tried to explain the insanity of the whole “lie detector” charade.
A cool subversion of this one might be to zoom out, rather than in. That viewing the image close up reveals a useless jumble of pixels but zooming out reveals an image. Or they’ve been focusing on the center of frame so narrowly that a detail at the edge of shot goes missed for awhile. So many toys to play with!
I’d like a cop show that does this but it’s conventional AI and it confidently makes up a licence plate but the cops take it seriously and commit to tracking it down.
And there should be maybe a few instances of people trying to explain in various ways “this is AI, the letters and numbers are made up, that car has like a 0.000001% chance of having had that specific random licence plate, please, stop looking for it, you’re being dumb” then the cops pretend like they understood and had an interesting conversation then they go right back to tracking the generated license plate to the best of their ability. A bit like cops who go on to order polygraphs the day after their nephew passionately tried to explain the insanity of the whole “lie detector” charade.
You can just say “zoom in, enhance” and everyone knows what you mean. It became such a meme that I think shows lean into it.
I think I’ve seen one show where it was phrased “is this all the resolution we have?”
I’ve had a good moment with a german crime show where the tech guy just said “Nope, not possible.”
A cool subversion of this one might be to zoom out, rather than in. That viewing the image close up reveals a useless jumble of pixels but zooming out reveals an image. Or they’ve been focusing on the center of frame so narrowly that a detail at the edge of shot goes missed for awhile. So many toys to play with!