There is a really nice video from the Swedish Airforce museum where a former fighter pilot tests their JAS39E simulator that gives REALLY clear details about the MFD (timestamped to 4:35, English subtitles available).
At 5:10 the pilot selects a target and gets a gray square with info that states “UN-ID” in the center for the yellow unidentified targets.
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… the tablet on the image provided by author of the report was drawn using AI. […] To prevent similar incidents from recurring, unsourced photos will not be accepted,
I wonder how this would work, like say you got the image from a random photographer on instagram or something . I would assume that wouldn’t count as A secondary source, and that from now on you essentially need to have all photos taken from at least a book or something for it to be able to be used in a bug report
I had a mod tell me an image I used was fake because they couldn’t find it despite me showing the link to the photographers site with dates that haven’t been updated in years since they retired
What i’m guessing is that images must have been sourced from a publicly available online point.
Although, as you said, that ability to verify starts to break down once the pictures come from less ‘credible’ ones. What i fear is that it gives them even more leeway than just now rejecting pictures. (defaulting to needing stated numbers, or generally concrete text statements, or even just holding a report in limbo because too little images were provided)
Interesting but not shocking at all considering the times we live in. AI is a very powerful tool and nothing stops people from creating believable artificial images just to boost or nerf things in the game.