[nullbio]

The real question is: Which of the documents are the ones that are "simulating" scanned documents, and what political narrative do they reinforce?

The only reason I can think of for why someone would want to do this is to pass off fraudulent or AI generated images as real.

[boromisp]

A simpler explanation could be wanting to skip the print->sign->scan ceremony required by some institutions.

[reactordev]

This. Slip in a few thousand “fakes” with the trove of goods to be able to fabricate a narrative.

[lucideer]

Another explanation is that it's simply one form of lazy ineffective obfuscation performed by inexperienced relative luddites in an attempt to walk the fine line between complying with the supreme court directive & not releasing anything useful.

Other investigations into the files have found oddities like redaction of the word "don't" indicating a haphazard find-&-replace approach to redaction, possibly LLM-aided.

The DOJ/Akamai online hosted search feature is also incomplete - potentially due to some of these "digitally scanned" files not being subject to OCR.

[lucideer]

> to pass off fraudulent or AI generated images as real.

Possibly but I don't find it compelling, if only because a significant portion of the media reportage on the files has made claims that are entirely baseless - if there were a narrative to be sold one would expect such reportage to be actively leveraging such fraudulent images.