Comment on Trump's video on the shooting of Kirk appears to be AI
OboTheHobo@ttrpg.network 1 day agoI 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 1 day 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.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 day ago
he loses a damn finger right there
OboTheHobo@ttrpg.network 1 day ago
I know. But that can totally happen in interpolated frames. Look at the cat video on the Wikipedia page. There are moments when the toy dissapears, when the kittens head splits into two, when one arm morphs into another… stuff like this is totally possible and even common. for motion interpolation.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
The bots are outvoting us like reddit
tarknassus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
He’s not pursing his lips the usual way either, which struck me as really odd.