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# GER-513 · Forensic Hallucination

> 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.

export const Badge = ({children, tone = "default", title}) => {
  const tones = {
    default: "bg-neutral-100 text-neutral-700",
    green: "bg-green-100 text-green-900",
    amber: "bg-amber-100 text-amber-900",
    blue: "bg-blue-50 text-blue-900",
    gray: "bg-neutral-50 text-neutral-600"
  };
  return <span className={`inline-flex items-center px-2 py-0.5 text-xs font-mono uppercase tracking-wider rounded ${tones[tone] ?? tones.default}`} title={title}>
      {children}
    </span>;
};

<div className="flex flex-wrap gap-2 mb-8 mt-2">
  <Badge tone="green">Documented</Badge> <Badge>Tier 5xx</Badge> <Badge>Layer L6</Badge> <Badge tone="blue" title="SVRNOS-assigned code in an HTTP-unassigned slot">Namespace-Claim</Badge> <Badge tone="gray">Added v0.2</Badge>
</div>

*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**](/ger/codes/327) — Enhance-to-fabricate of degraded source → this code. Deepfake synthesized from scratch → GER-327.
* [**GER-512**](/ger/codes/512) — Fabrication framed as recovered/enhanced from a source → this code. Fabrication invented from scratch, not framed as recovery → GER-512.

## Documented case

<Card title="Grok Reportedly Generated False 'Unmasked' Images of ICE Agent, Purportedly Triggering Online Misidentification and Harassment in Minneapolis" href="https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1334">
  AIID #1334
</Card>

### Cite

```
SVRNOS. (2026). GER-513: Forensic Hallucination. Governance Error Register. https://docs.svrnos.com/ger/codes/513
```