No, it’s definitely AI.
Comment on Trump's video on the shooting of Kirk appears to be AI
OboTheHobo@ttrpg.network 1 day agoI think this may be just interpolation weirdness. Apparently the video was recorded in 24fps but encodes in 60.
See this analysis, I posted it in another comment: youtube.com/shorts/hXhDB1fK7ok
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
OboTheHobo@ttrpg.network 23 hours ago
See some of my later replies. I’ve looked at it frame by frame and it looks exactly like the artifacts you’d see from motion interpolation. They can look very similar to AI artifacts.
meco03211@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Are you differentiating between AI Interpolation and just simply AI? It feels like people saying it’s AI you push back on.
OboTheHobo@ttrpg.network 2 hours ago
Yes. People seem to be saying this is not a real video and that the white house generated it with AI. That is what I would say it means to say the video “is AI” - particularly because an AI interpolated video is still a real video.
Whether the interpolation is done with AI or not, I don’t know. AI interpolation is fairly common but there are older methods that produce similar artifacts. Based on some of the interpolated frames I’m leaning slightly towards it being AI interpolation but I don’t know well enough to say.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 day ago
just visually track the tip of his index finger. And keep track of how many fingers are supposed to be past it.
His index finger litterally becomes his middle finger.
OboTheHobo@ttrpg.network 1 day ago
I know, im seeing what you mean. I’m saying that could very much be an issue with interpolation. Especially if its AI interpolation. I edited my comment to add a bit more detail but its possible that over half the frames of this video are AI generated while the video itself is still real. Obviously I cant say for sure that that’s what is happening but this very much could be an interpolation artifact. Even in non-genAI interpolation, weird smudginess and morphing of fast moving objects in interpolated frames is a common and well known issue.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I could accept AI enhanced, but also, like…I’ve been looking at it a lot.
He’s way too still. Uncannily still. The chair doesn’t move. At all. It’s in high resolution. But isn’t.
And the finger thing. Its such an extremely well established issue with these kinds of videos.
It’s got enough red flags I’ll be looking for more coverage on the matter.
Regardless, it’s so unbelievably wildy inappropriate to be doing any kind of ai enhanced or even smoothed editing to the words of a world leader when those words have incredible weight impact and are effectively legally binding.
OboTheHobo@ttrpg.network 23 hours ago
I’m looking at it more and I’m fairly certain this is just interpolated.
Look at this frame:
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Seems to me to be pretty normal. No weird hand stuff, fingers look fine.
Now look at the next two frames, particularly the second one:
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Totally jank. Fingers are blotchy, there’s a ghost finger, overall looks super fake. But then look at the next two frames:
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Second to last has a little bit of weirdness still, but by the last frame it looks totally legit and real. No blotchy fingers, no ghost fingers, overall looks very normal.
That kind of behavior - where some frames look completely fine and in between ones look blotchy and weird - is exactly what you expect from motion interpolation.
Look at the example on a cat video on wikepedia, for instance: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_interpolation
The framerate is much lower on the original video here, but you can see a lot of the same kinds of artifacts. Blotchy limbs, “ghosts” in movment, things morphing in ways they shouldn’t… its very similar to what’s seen in the trump video. And mind you, to my knowledge this video is done with older interpolation methods that had nothing to do with genAI.
tarknassus@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
He’s not pursing his lips the usual way either, which struck me as really odd.