Maine police post a drug-bust photo that AI quietly altered

Police in Westbrook, Maine, posted a Facebook photo of drug evidence from a recent bust. An officer had used an editing app to add the department's patch to the picture. According to the Portland Press Herald, the app was ChatGPT. The edit also changed the packaging and other details, and nobody at the department caught it. Commenters spotted garbled lettering and blurry edges. Police first denied using AI, then admitted it, the Press Herald reported. The department posted a public apology with the original and edited photos side by side. It said it never meant to alter the evidence image. It offered to show reporters the real seized evidence.