KING COUNTY, Wash.-In a first-of-its-kind ruling a King County Superior Court Judge barred the use of Artificial Intelligence-enhanced video as evidence in a triple murder case.
According to NBC News reporting on the case, the lawyers for Joshua Puloka, the man accused of killing three people after opening fire outside a Seattle bar in 2021 wanted to introduce cellphone video enhanced by machine learning software as evidence.
The deadly shooting was caught on cellphone video and Puloka’s lawyers hired a man with a background in creative video production who used AI software to enhance the video.
According to the King County Prosecutor’s Office, the AI enhanced version of the video was analyzed by forensic experts and found to contain visual data that was not in the original.
