Dutch far-right party pays damages to court artist after changing image with AI
TL;DR
Geert Wilders’ PVV altered sketch of jailed Syrian brothers to make them look more menacing A Dutch court artist has received damages after an MP for the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) used one of her drawings without permission and manipulated it with AI to make the subjects look more menacing. Petra Urban, a court artist for 19 years, was shocked to discover a drawing she had made last year of two Syrian brothers jailed for the murder of their sister had been reworked and used in a video on Instagram and Facebook by the party’s Noord-Brabant region.
Nauti's Take
This is not a cute copyright slip; it is a warning label for every AI workflow touching images of real people. When models inject mood into evidence or courtroom sketches, provenance, consent, and audit trails stop being paperwork.
Without them, you are just building propaganda with a nicer interface.
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