A Russian Propaganda Network Is Promoting an AI-Manipulated Biden Video (wired.com) 224
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: In recent weeks, as so-called cheap fake video clips suggesting President Joe Biden is unfit for office have gone viral on social media, a Kremlin-affiliated disinformation network has been promoting a parody music video featuring Biden wearing a diaper and being pushed around in a wheelchair. The video is called "Bye, Bye Biden" and has been viewed more than 5 million times on X since it was first promoted in the middle of May. It depicts Biden as senile, wearing a hearing aid, and taking a lot of medication. It also shows him giving money to a character who seems to represent illegal migrants while denying money to US citizens until they change their costume to mimic the Ukrainian flag. Another scene shows Biden opening the front door of a family home that features a Confederate flag on the wall and allowing migrants to come in and take over. Finally, the video contains references to stolen election conspiracies pushed by former president Donald Trump.
The video was created by Little Bug, a group that mimics the style of Little Big, a real Russian band that fled the country in 2022 following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The video features several Moscow-based actors -- who spoke with Russian media outlet Agency.Media -- but also appears to use artificial intelligence technology to make the actors resemble Biden and Trump, as well as Ilya Prusikin, the lead singer of Little Big. "Biden and Trump appear to be the same actor, with deepfake video-editing changing his facial features until he resembles Biden in one case and Trump in the other case," says Alex Fink, an AI and machine-vision expert who analyzed the video for WIRED. "The editing is inconsistent, so you can see that in some cases he resembles Biden more and in others less. The facial features keep changing." An analysis by True Media, a nonprofit that was founded to tackle the spread of election-related deepfakes, found with 100 percent confidence that there was AI-generated audio used in the video. It also assessed with 78 percent confidence that some AI technology was used to manipulate the faces of the actors.
Fink says the obvious nature of the deepfake technology on display here suggests that the video was created in a rush, using a small number of iterations of a generative adversarial network in order to create the characters of Biden and Trump. It is unclear who is behind the video, but "Bye, Bye Biden" has been promoted by the Kremlin-aligned network known as Doppelganger. The campaign posted tens of thousands of times on X and was uncovered by Antibot4Navalny, an anonymous collective of Russian researchers who have been tracking Doppelganger's activity for the past six months. The campaign first began on May 21, and there have been almost 4,000 posts on X promoting the video in 13 languages that were promoted by a network of almost 25,000 accounts. The Antibot4Navalny researchers concluded that the posts were written with the help of generative AI technology. The video has been shared 6.5 million times on X and has been viewed almost 5 million times.
The video was created by Little Bug, a group that mimics the style of Little Big, a real Russian band that fled the country in 2022 following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The video features several Moscow-based actors -- who spoke with Russian media outlet Agency.Media -- but also appears to use artificial intelligence technology to make the actors resemble Biden and Trump, as well as Ilya Prusikin, the lead singer of Little Big. "Biden and Trump appear to be the same actor, with deepfake video-editing changing his facial features until he resembles Biden in one case and Trump in the other case," says Alex Fink, an AI and machine-vision expert who analyzed the video for WIRED. "The editing is inconsistent, so you can see that in some cases he resembles Biden more and in others less. The facial features keep changing." An analysis by True Media, a nonprofit that was founded to tackle the spread of election-related deepfakes, found with 100 percent confidence that there was AI-generated audio used in the video. It also assessed with 78 percent confidence that some AI technology was used to manipulate the faces of the actors.
Fink says the obvious nature of the deepfake technology on display here suggests that the video was created in a rush, using a small number of iterations of a generative adversarial network in order to create the characters of Biden and Trump. It is unclear who is behind the video, but "Bye, Bye Biden" has been promoted by the Kremlin-aligned network known as Doppelganger. The campaign posted tens of thousands of times on X and was uncovered by Antibot4Navalny, an anonymous collective of Russian researchers who have been tracking Doppelganger's activity for the past six months. The campaign first began on May 21, and there have been almost 4,000 posts on X promoting the video in 13 languages that were promoted by a network of almost 25,000 accounts. The Antibot4Navalny researchers concluded that the posts were written with the help of generative AI technology. The video has been shared 6.5 million times on X and has been viewed almost 5 million times.
Being fair he is (Score:2)
Obligatory Futurama (Score:2)
Mayor Poopenmeyer: My God! The senile old man is right!
Dr. Wernstrom: Do you mean him or me?
Mayor Poopenmeyer: (pointing at Professor Farnsworth) Him!
Dr. Wernstrom: (frowning) Oh.
When your propaganda is (Score:2)
You have to consider target audience (Score:3, Insightful)
Vladimir Putin isn't good at running countries, he's a terrible military leader, a shitty politician and an absolute psychopath.
But none of that is his specialty. His specialty was is and always will be information warfare. He's ex Soviet KGB. One of the old school scary c
Re:You have to consider target audience (Score:4, Insightful)
Vladimir Putin isn't good at running countries, he's a terrible military leader, a shitty politician and an absolute psychopath.
But none of that is his specialty. His specialty was is and always will be information warfare. He's ex Soviet KGB. One of the old school scary comrade types.
After watching Tucker's train-wreck interview I very much doubt even that is true. When given the chance to speak to a western audience Putler blew it on warped history lessons nobody gave two shits about. It showed someone consumed by their own bullshit and comically unaware of their audience.
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But I am a boomer, so maybe I am talking about my cocoa I drank this morning.
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I'm sure he'll either say he isn't a boomer and has lived a healthier life than dumb boomers so he's not declining or he'll more likely find a way to blame the 1%ers for poisoning his food/water/air and if not for them he'd live forever.
Given his poor me whining track record, I give it 90/10 in favor of blaming the 1%'ers for his inevitable decline.
He obviously has a point, though. In my 20s, I had better than 20/20 vision, but now I have trouble reading normal sized print without my glasses. It must be s
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Clearly Putin is to blame. And Pooh Bear!
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It was inspired by an original video featuring the likeness of Vladimir Putin; but that video's creator committed suicide by being pushed out a closed window after being hit in the head with a hammer.
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In Russia, windows defenestrate YOU!
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Ripoff (Score:2)
It's a ripoff of this video was posted 2 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Here's the new one now with cheapfakes: https://vk.com/video-221265170... [vk.com]
All you need to know about this election (Score:5, Informative)
I know damn well there's a bunch of trumpers on this forum and I know they tend to keep quiet about it. They don't like the looks they get when they're wearing the red hat which is hilarious because they're the first ones to tell you microaggressions aren't real....
But bottom line Putin is ex Soviet KGB. And Putin gets along great with Donald Trump. So if you're one of those trumpers congratulations, you became a Soviet style communist to stick it to the libs.
Was it worth it?
Re:All you need to know about this election (Score:5, Funny)
If Putin told you not to jump off a cliff, would you jump off it because he said it?
Don't be silly. Putin likes people to go out windows, not off cliffs.
It's astonishing how clumsy all his rivals are.
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If pooter is talking to me my choices would be to jump off that cliff or be thrown off that cliff... either way for me the end result would be equal
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If Putin told you not to jump off a cliff, would you jump off it because he said it?
Putin doesn't tell you anything. Things just happen to you.
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Re: All you need to know about this election (Score:2)
Implying not voting for Trump is harmful to the US.
Door labelled "Trump" is a glass door with a cliff on the other side of it. Half the country knows this, half the country doesn't care, and Putin is still working to convince people that's the door to walk through.
Re:All you need to know about this election (Score:4, Insightful)
Not sure where you're hatching these whacky statements?
The VAST majority of the rest of the world know that Biden, although far from the ideal candidate for the job, saved us from another 4 years of trump.
The rest of the world also views the squirrel-haired freak as a dangerously unhinged socipath.
The only one hinting at, or provoking a nuclear confrontation is putin and his cronies - haven't you been reading some of the insane statement they issue?
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That comment is offensive to squirrels, because they have better hair than Trump.
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Fun fact for Trump: No new wars. Fun fact for Biden: Shooting our missiles into Russia.
Again, who's the sociopath and unhinged party here?
Fact: Trump unconditionally surrendered to the Taliban.
Fact: Trump pulled out of the agreement that was stopping Iran from developing nukes.
Fact: Trump tried to buddy up to both Russia and North Korea.
Fact: Trump tried to extort Ukraine and throw Ukraine under the bus.
If you want the "bad countries" to run the world, vote for Trump.
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Fun fact for Trump: No new wars.
Talk about being too incompetent to get even that common feature of a US Presidency wrong. ;-)
Re:All you need to know about this election (Score:4, Interesting)
Fun fact for Trump: No new wars.
Fun fact for Biden: Shooting our missiles into Russia.
Again, who's the sociopath and unhinged party here?
Fun fact for Biden: He didn't start any wars, Putin attacked Ukraine because he was no longer worried about jeopardizing his buddy's re-election (and disassemble NATO) chances.
Fun fact for Trump: He went on a ridiculous escalation with NK, which easily could have resulted in Nuclear war. He also killed the Iran Nuclear deal (putting them on the path to Nukes) and again escalated, almost leading to a big war and very much leading to the death of a planeload of civilians who were mistaken by terrified (and incompetent) Iranian defences as an American attack.
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You realize that most of the world views Biden as a brutal dictator who committed a coup, and would love to see him go as his policy has been the biggest driver since Obama towards global war, right?
I'm assuming you're merely trolling to see some flames.
No, the rest of the world did not like Trump, and the Europe part of "the rest of the world" absolutely does NOT want Russia to roll over Ukraine, because they worry that they're going to be next.
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No serious western leader honestly believes that Russia with an economy the size of a middling US state and shattered military that can't handle a bunch of farmers with gifted older weapons and a fraction of their population is a serious threat to NATO.
It's a silly concept in its face.
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No serious western leader honestly believes that Russia with an economy the size of a middling US state and shattered military that can't handle a bunch of farmers with gifted older weapons and a fraction of their population is a serious threat to NATO.
Citation needed.
Every European leader knows that despite all that, Putin invaded Ukraine, and Russia shows no sign of withdrawing despite all that.
https://www.thecipherbrief.com... [thecipherbrief.com]
https://www.bbc.com/news/world... [bbc.com]
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/02... [cnn.com]
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You need a citation for a much larger country having trouble defeating a bunch of farmers using borrowed and gifted weapons?
Ok try this: cnn.com
And then go google for Article 5 of the NATO alliance treaty. Putin is a piece of shit but he's not suicidal.
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You need a citation for a much larger country having trouble defeating a bunch of farmers using borrowed and gifted weapons?
No. I need a citation for your statement that the European leaders are not worried that Russia will continue on to threaten other European countries if they are successful in their invasion of Ukraine.
You don't have have a citation, because this is incorrect. European leaders are worried that if Russia wins in Ukraine, it will just make them bolder about threatening other countries, and they have said so many times .
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No, Republican politicians are afraid to support Ukraine, because their supreme commander wants to be Putins gay lover, so they shouldn't do anything that might upset either man.
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You realize that most of the world views Biden as a brutal dictator who committed a coup, and would love to see him go as his policy has been the biggest driver since Obama towards global war, right?
ROFL
And no, I'm not a "MAGA", and I didn't vote for him for the first time. I don't want to vote for him this time, either, but the people who support this admin really leave little choice in the matter.
Never beg your audience to believe you.
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Most of the world sees Biden as old and somewhat ineffective at stopping the worst of what the GOP does, e.g. taking away women's rights, but at least not likely to stage a coup or be influenced by Putin.
Most of the world believes that Biden won fairly, and Trump attempted a coup. Most of the world also thinks that Trump's 34 felony convictions were fair and true.
Here's an interesting question. If Trump wins what happens if he wants to visit a country that doesn't allow people with multiple criminal convict
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Hey for all these decades...Keith Richards somehow managed to get in/out of countries AND work....
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exceptions will be made. Modi persona non grata, then he became prime minister of India and suddenly the state department no longer had a problem with him visiting.
Realistically no nation is going to fail to make allowances for the POTUS to visit on any official diplomatic trip. If they do well there SHOULD be diplomatic consequences...
Re: All you need to know about this election (Score:3)
You're fucked in the head if you actually think the democratic world sees Biden as a dictator.
I mean you're really fucked in the head.
You didn't grow up learning about the rule of law or what it means to be American.
Trump wants to make the executive branch a handout to political loyalists. To completely unravel the functionality of the US government. He has worked to delegitimize elections because he doesn't like it when he doesn't win. He and Fox News are already saying "if we don't win the election was ri
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Under putin's. Duh. An invasion was simply not feasible before 2022 due to COVID and the lack of upgraded military hardware.
I am not a merkin and even I know that the withdrawal wa
Re:All you need to know about this election (Score:5, Insightful)
Is that Vladimir Putin, a brutal dictator who started an unprovoked war with the nation that gave up its nuclear arms, wants Donald Trump to win.
I know damn well there's a bunch of trumpers on this forum and I know they tend to keep quiet about it. They don't like the looks they get when they're wearing the red hat which is hilarious because they're the first ones to tell you microaggressions aren't real....
But bottom line Putin is ex Soviet KGB. And Putin gets along great with Donald Trump. So if you're one of those trumpers congratulations, you became a Soviet style communist to stick it to the libs.
It's weird how actual material facts of world events are just considered irrelevant and uninvited inconsistencies compared with the enticing character drama that people make up in their heads.
Under which president's tenure did Putin start the unprovoked war? From your reasoning presumably it was the one he was buddy-buddy with.
Biden presided over a disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal which left Americans trapped, stranded and turned over locals who had helped us to the Taliban, abandoned billions equipment and now it's the only country where women can't legally be educated past sixth grade. Uncoincidentally after that huge demonstration of American weakness Putin felt his odds were good for invading Ukraine. Biden did nothing to stop it in fact he blocked [nbcnews.com] efforts to sanction Russia in the lead up to the war. When Russia attacked there was no US response until Europeans basically shamed the US into contributing. Happy to credit the administration for actually delivering financial and military resources since then. Less happy to credit them with severely restricting the equipment sent and how it can be used, including forbidding Ukraine to perform direct attacks inside Russian territory. All of which has deeply hampered their ability to actually win the war which it seem more and more like Biden doesn't want to happen (apparently in favor of Ukraine eventually conceding land for peace). He released billions to Iran, which sponsored the October 7 attacks and has continued to act through their proxies such as Hamas and Hezbollah in an increasingly escalating war, one of his first steps in office was to declassify the Houthis as terrorist organization (they are show downing commercial vessels with rockets and their blockade has had a major impact on prices of shipped goods and shortages), and has made a downright mess of the negotiations for hostages and peace between Israel and Palestine such that it's probably never going to happen.
Trump's was far less disaster and far more global stability, including a dramatic and unexpected breakthrough in the Middle East which saw states such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia normalizing relations with Israel.
I find Trump's sycophantic words for dictators gross, but I am not going to take that and craft it into a pseudoreality in which I delusionaly believe foreign policy outcomes are faring better under Biden. Do yourself a favor also and make a case for electing Biden that doesn't require inverting eight years of history to be believed.
Erm, no. The "Biden Disaster" was ironically a Trump disaster as Trump set it in motion and there was nothing Biden could do to stop it. Trump even bragged about it.
As much as I feel for the Afghans, that hasn't done jack to affect the rest of the world. The Taliban were and have returned to being, very, very insular. Now more should have been done for Afghanistan but the US blew that in 2003 with Dubya's ill conceived invasion of Iraq, which also ended quite badly. Any good will created by liberating Afghanistan was immediately undone by the US attacking another nation for no reason.
Trump on the other hand sold state secrets, supported dictators, assisted in the murder of journalists and most of it, for personal profit. The fact he didn't do more damage was entirely down to sheer incompetence.
He also tried to claim credit for things he had no hand in, like relations between Egypt and Israel.
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Under which president's tenure did Putin start the unprovoked war?
Barack Obama in 2014.
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THIS!!! Putin only invaded when US presidents were democratic understanding that they are pacifists and would not directly retaliate. And Putin advocates the candidate that creates the most turmoil in US elections. However, in this case, he thinks that Trump will be willing to negotiate an end to the war which has gone on far longer than he expected and become too costly. Putin is desperate to end the war by keeping what's he has conquered and preventing Ukraine from joining Nato, which allows him to n
Re:All you need to know about this election (Score:5, Interesting)
Permit me to correct some of those facts:
Biden presided over a disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal which left Americans trapped, stranded and turned over locals who had helped us to the Taliban, abandoned billions equipment
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Quick checklist:
* The plan for Afghanistan, started under George Bush Jr, was to give that equipment to the Northern Alliance to aid their war against the Taliban. The US armed the Afghan National Police (ANP) and established the Afghan National Army (ANA) and provided them with guns, equipment, and training. It was supposed to be a limited engagement where we withdrew and left the army capable of keeping the peace. D'oh!
* Donald Trump signed the withdrawal agreement with the Taliban. It said nothing about taking back the equipment, and the military balked at the 14-month timeline.
* Donald Trump oversaw the first 12 months of the withdrawal. The negotiated date was only 3 months into Biden's presidency. And Biden had to delay it because insufficient progress had been made since he took office.
Let us not blame Biden for Trump's actions, or Trump for George Bush's actions.
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Putin expected Trump to win and then COVID happened. Putin had already been putting the plans in motion to invade Ukraine and had planned to do it during Trump's second presidency when he could kill absolutely everyone in Ukraine indiscriminately and not have to worry about the US taking action.
Putin underestimated just how corrupt his own country is though. Again he's an incompetent politician He's just really goo
Re:All you need to know about this election (Score:5, Insightful)
Biden presided over a disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal which left Americans trapped
If I hand you a hand grenade with a pulled out pin do I get to call you an idiot for it blowing up? The Afghanistan withdrawal was arranged and agreed by Trump. Here's a hint: Virtually everything that happens in the first 6 months of a presidency is the result of the previous department's decision. That's the speed at which governments operate. That includes both good and bad things by the way, despite how much each party will only point out the good and criticise the bad as being the result of the others.
Uncoincidentally after that huge demonstration of American weakness Putin felt his odds were good for invading Ukraine.
Which is precisely why he wants Trump for another term. Trump demonstrated clear weakening of America on the global stage. Trump put a rift in NATO allies. You can say Biden all you want, but that's just your lack of temporal understanding.
Disclosure: I'm not American, don't give a fuck about America (unless they decide I put too much oil in my salad and invade my arse during dinner), and am just sitting on the sidelines laughing how America is systematically undoing it's global dominant position it had spent 80 years building all while being supported by dumb fuck voters who think the two best people to run the country are either a grandpa who moves like he's on the way to a nursing home, or an actual criminal felon serial fraudster.
333million of you and that's the best you got. The world is laughing at you. They are laughing a bit at Biden, and a fucking shitload at Trump.
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It's weird how actual material facts of world events are just considered irrelevant and uninvited inconsistencies compared with the enticing character drama that people make up in their heads.
Under which president's tenure did Putin start the unprovoked war?
How did this get modded up? One of the challenges with evaluating any presidential administration is that there is always residue from the previous administration and the political aspect of things is such that the current administration takes credit for the good and blames the previous for the bad. You can see that in the other (sometimes partisan) replies.
Was inflation so high under the Biden administration because of something that he did? Possibly. The stimulus checks that Biden gave out were large
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As long as he doesn't claim I had Russian hookers pee in my bed I won't care.
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Nice gaslight attempt. This isn't the DemocraticUnderground, people don't just swallow whatever you're selling.
TRUMP shitcanned the Obama/Biden passion project of shacking up with Iran in the FIRST PLACE.
Biden with a pen-stroke delivered them $16 BILLION dollars.
I think it's clear who has benefited Iran *directly*.
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Must be using AI for the real thing (Score:2)
Otherwise, there is no way this could be real [imgur.com].
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So, its AI when "the good guys" use it and its "a generative adversarial network" when "bad guys" use it?
Even the summary is propaganda.
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The sky is falling generates more news clicks. The corporate media is losing respect because viewers are getting exhausted by this sort of baiting. Satire is satire, doesn't generate the same traction that them bad Russians are trying to sway elections by making videos of Biden!! does.
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Who says they're not? It's an obvious spoof video.
It never ceases to amaze me how many here cry like little bitches about my name then turn around and think exactly like that about other people.
The irony on this site is so thick you need a blow torch to cut it.
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If Russia hates Biden and loves Trump.. (Score:3)
Re:Cheap-fakes (Score:4, Insightful)
When the longer unedited video closer to the incident is considered a cheap fake, a new term made up to try and denigrate the video,
If you've never heard the term "cheap fake" before, you're not a native English speaker.
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Bingo
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W're all aware of how cheap fakes has been used, such as when an inexpensive knock-off is sold as though it's an original. Think expensive watches or purses.
KJP created a new use for an establish term to describe a reality that they didn't like. No one has used the term 'cheap fake' in this context before. For you to try to claim otherwise is disingenuous.
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I doubt the current crop has ever been taught the 5Ws.
I was thinking of saying something along those lines but by now everyone either sees them for what they are or mindlessly slurps down every word thriving on the confirmation bias. "The media are great because they say what I believe. I believe those things because the media said so!" Sigh....
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What was modified? Are you talking about the full length Biden walked off stage by Obama video recently? The one where we can see the entire thing from pretty close with no cuts?
That was modified?
Please explain.
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We've all seen the WH cut up video where the key moment was removed and the full length closer up shot with no cuts.
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Wow, what an incredibly stupid post.
The "shorter" video shows the context that was purposefully omitted from the bullshit one. The relative lengths of the videos, in this case, are irrelevant.
A "cheap fake" is actual video that tells a lie by omitting important context. Sometimes that is done by shortening a video, but not always. In this case, the context that was omitted was simply out-of-frame. A short video from a different angle from further away shows the important context.
the media has lost any claim to legitimacy whatsoever.
That is not a problem wi
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Yes, because the closer, longer, uncut video showing Biden reacting normally, then completely freezing up until Obama grabs him, and Obama escorting him off the stage with his hand on his back along the neon yellow tape arrows on the stage to let ol Joe know which way to walk omits context.
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Wow, what an incredibly stupid post.
The "shorter" video shows the context that was purposefully omitted from the bullshit one. The relative lengths of the videos, in this case, are irrelevant.
A "cheap fake" is actual video that tells a lie by omitting important context. Sometimes that is done by shortening a video, but not always. In this case, the context that was omitted was simply out-of-frame. A short video from a different angle from further away shows the important context.
Here are both videos playing side-by-side [x.com] so everyone can decide for themselves.
Just to be clear your claim is that switching cameras at the exact moment of dispute to far removed camera in which the scene is barely visible is the honest way to edit this, and an uninterrupted shot at normal zoom is *so pernicious* that it can be accurately referred to by the president's press secretary as a "fake" (which normally refers to things which are entirely synthetic without any real basis).
Why does it just happen
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Pathetic. Confronted with actual evidence, you double-down with baseless speculation.
No one is buying your bullshit. Cry harder.
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That's a weird response to someone who just provided you both videos side by side.
Are you replying to the right person?
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Why does it just happen to be that there are so many "out-of-context" recordings that make it look like Biden is confused, frozen, and saying the wrong words?
This question is confusing. Do you really not know? Why would you ask something like that? Surely the reason is obvious. If you repeat something often enough, some people will start to believe it. No matter what it is.
Why do so many people think that Hillary Clinton is some kind of criminal, despite never being convicted or tried or even charged? And with so many of the accusations against her being absolutely batshit insane? The response that I've gotten to that question, right here on Slashdot, has bee
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This isn't about video of Hillary collapsing and stumbling her way through her poorly run campaign skipping important states.
This is about multiple videos of Joe demonstrating his current t state of physical and mental health or lack thereof.
Watch the official white house video with multiple cuts to distant cameras at key moments side by side with the single uncut close up video. It's right there in plain sight. No cuts, full context, no bullshit.
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Run-on sentence
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Way to downplay the threat. AI makes it possible for anyone with some prompt skills to create the fake photo and video. It also makes generating these fake videos and photos much faster.
The end result is that people no longer blindly believe videos, especially videos shared on social media... which should have been the case all along as it's been very easy to doctor videos for years (perhaps decades) now.
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Yes, and it was possible to communicate with people across the world in 1700. It was a hell of a lot harder though.
It should be obvious that creating believable fake content is becoming easier by the month, that the quality of that fake content is approaching "undetectable " to the untrained eye, and that the quantity of fake content will put a strain on society as we struggle to fact check every single thing we hear or see.
No, this isn't the same as a kid mailing in a picture of Bigfoot to the local paper
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AI has just made that stuff a lot easier. Back when "The Running Man" was filmed, it took a good amount of time even in the fictional movie to swap faces. Now, this is something trivially done by an iPhone.
AI is like power tools. Weapons were doable when one had a hand lathe and a file, but a lot easier to deploy, mass-produce, and use when one has CNC equipment and additive/subtractive manufacturing at their beck and call.
I'm sure it doesn't take much to make an AI video, or just train an AI video on an ad, do some face swaps, have the characters do stuff slightly different and sell that as the original video.
Now, how do we protect against this stuff? Probably trails of authenticity, from cameras on down, but even then, even with the best, you still have nation-states which can break almost any security measure. Sadly, the best option might be having a GFC-like "content filter" in place on the ISP level, just so that rogue nations actually have some sort of a challenge as opposed to just slapping it on Tik-Tok and getting millions of views.
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Probably trails of authenticity, from cameras on down, but even then, even with the best, you still have nation-states which can break almost any security measure.
You don't need nation states for this, just bored hackers. Nikon and Canon both introduced cryptographically backed authentication trails for their camera systems, both of them had their systems cracked to show you can sign any image as authentic within a relatively short period.
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Trump is so bad that even Fox cuts away when he loses it. https://secondnexus.com/trump-... [secondnexus.com]
"When there's so much water and you don't know what to do with it, it's called rain. It rains a lot in certain places."
"But their idea... did you see the other day, I opened it up and then I closed it again. I open it, they close it. Washing machines to help wash your dishes."
There's a problem: They don't want you to have any water. They want no water."
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Link, please. Every video I've seen up to the last few days he was walking just fine.
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Biden is experienced, Trump is incompetent (Score:2)
I watched some footage of him just walking recently and he seriously looks like he's going to fall after every step. He looks like like of those old people trying to move from the walker to their favorite chair but they are so weak that just those two steps are perilous. I don't know how they keep him from being injured when he has so little coordination. Honestly, he looks like someone at death's door who has just a few months of lead left in his pencil.
Are you capable of locating and discerning between legitimate un-doctored news clips with their full context made clear and the most-basic concepts of propaganda? You do realize this is a tech-site, right? You should search slashdot for this thing called 'digital editing' deepfakes. 100-1 you don't subscribe to any newspaper. 1,000 - 1 you don't subscribe to and actually read anything like The Economist.
Or are you like that fat old rat [youtube.com] in an old Disney movie?
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Watch Fox News cut away from some of convi
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With a nod toward Chairman Mao's, "power comes from the end of a gun", quote...
Parody: "Weather comes from the end of a Sharpie" - Former President and convicted felon Donald Trump, September 1, 2019 [wikipedia.org]
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"Trump: No water in your faucets. You ever try buying a new home and you turn on. You want to wash your hair or you wanna wash your hands. You turn on the water and it goes drip, drip the soap. You can't get it off your hand. So you keep it running for about 10 times longer. You trying, the worst is your hair. I have this beautiful luxuriant hair and I put stuff on. I put it in lather. I like lots of lather because I like it to come out extremely dry because it seems to be slightly thicker that way. And I lather up and then you turn on this crazy shower and the thing drip, drip and you say I'm gonna be here for 45 minutes. What? There's so much water. You don't know what to do with it. You know, it's called rain. It rains a lot in certain places. But, now their idea, you know, did you see the other day? They just, I opened it up and they closed it again. I opened it, they close it, washing machines to wash your dishes. There is a problem. They don't want you to have any water. They want no water."
I still don't have the faintest clue what he's rambling about, water pressure?
How does he plan to address inflation, petroleum prices, healthcare, stagnant wages, etc etc?
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If this wasn't written by AI then it was written by an idiot. Take your pick.
I'm not quoting you. Just using your words the same way you apply them mindlessly to someone else. Pure hate spew, no facts, no explanation, no nothing. Like a child.
Do better.
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Full length uncut full content video of Joe's physical and mental lapses are available all over the net.
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There is a big difference between someone getting older and not being quite as sharp as they used to be, and someone who is unhinged and talks about electric boats and sharks in front of a crowd of people. Make no mistake, Biden is old, but he's not off the rails crazy and inventing stupid crap.
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Whoa! That's amazing! Someone posted a fake pic from a joke account and uhm... yes! Everything is proved!
At least the Babylon bee is funny. But it doesn't prove anything.
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Joe is fine! Cheap fakes! Believe us not your own eyes! 1984!
Putler! Russia! Russia! Russia! Pee tape! 2 impeachments! Convicted felon 34 separate crimes! REEEEEEEEEE!!!!
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Above is a documentary of a terminally online right-winger.
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What kind of reporting doesn't have a link to the video that the story is discussing?
Responsible kind. Actual fake / graphic videos are typically only shown on shock news channels. If you want the video I'm sure you'll find a link on Fox News.
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