[fosterfriends]

I used to laugh a the "let's enhance" (and still do), but watching generative image models get better, I wonder if fiction will become a reality, abet with lots of hallucinations. At least the enhanced reflections of perpetrators' faces will have a lovely mid-journey art style.

classic compilation of "Let's enhance" - https://youtu.be/LhF_56SxrGk

[gilleain]

"The eigenvalue is off" was a nice one.

Nothing will beat NCIS though - for example where they 'enhanced' a picture where a reflection in an eyeball.

[rahkiin]

Nothing beats NCIS in abusing lack of knowledge around computer and software in the general public: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bwUdjeu4C6A (getting hacked through a power cable and fighting with 4 hands on a keyboard)

[sva_]

Create a GUI interface using visual basic to track an IP address https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU

[wonderwonder]

I had never seen this show before and somehow stumbled across the 4 hands on a keyboard episode. It was awesome inspiring how terrible it was

[danielbln]

Rumour is that the script writers tried to outdo themselves in who can slip the most ridiculous tech scenario into an episode.

[hgsgm]

Nowadays power cables are USB and definitely a threat vector.

NCIS was scifi ahead of its time.

[NoMoreNicksLeft]

In Enemy of the State, one of the computer techs does an "enhance", and when they notice a bulge in a carrier bag he points out that it could just be an artifact of the enhancement rather than representing something real in the photo.

Some studio hired a non-idiot consultant for once.

[dspillett]

> "... that can bitmap"

!!

I knew¹ people who won't touch SciFi or anything that they think remotely whiffed of it, parrot because it was "unrealistic", yet lapped up NCIS and similar. Always amused me.

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[1] Not so much now, science fiction seems to be more acceptable to a wider audience

[FeteCommuniste]

Love that one. My favorite is "Enhance the reflection in her eye." :-D