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Infrastructure Failures

Definition

A system used to enhance, reconstruct, or unmask degraded or occluded source media originates fabricated forensic detail that the user treats as recovered or authoritative truth.

Distinct from

  • GER-327 — Enhance-to-fabricate of degraded source → this code. Deepfake synthesized from scratch → GER-327.
  • GER-512 — Fabrication framed as recovered/enhanced from a source → this code. Fabrication invented from scratch, not framed as recovery → GER-512.

Documented case

Grok Reportedly Generated False 'Unmasked' Images of ICE Agent, Purportedly Triggering Online Misidentification and Harassment in Minneapolis

AIID #1334

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