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Comment on Trump's video on the shooting of Kirk appears to be AI

brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Oh my… y’all need to chill.

Download yt-dlp and run this command, to get CNN’s ‘direct’ 245MB stream instead of AP’s (or YouTube’s) tiny re-encodes:

yt-dlp -f direct https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/us/video/trump-oval-office-statement-white-house-charlie-kirk-death-digvid

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It’s interlaced.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlaced_video

The re-encodes are clearly de-interlaced (poorly) which is why motion looks so weird. It’s also choppy and blocky, hallmarks of poor encoding, even in a very high bitrate stream.

Y’all (and apparently the rest of the internet) are obsessing over literally decades-old video encoding/broadcasting issues and oldschool video filters to fix them that have nothing to with AI.

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Snazz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
New conspiracy: The government planned this decades ago and had the video ready in advance.

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- GenosseFlosse@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Bold to assume that governments are capable of long term plans.
  
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Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Why would there be interlaced video in 2025? Fuck do they still have a tube tv?

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- brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  The video encoding crowd was screaming that that 10 years ago, heh.
  
  …Shrug. I guess people are still getting ‘traditional’ cable broadcasts. Turn on YouTube TV, and you can see they still use those ancient broadcast codecs (even though its all streamed), probably because they have to just comply with the system.
  
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- mcv@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  They want to go back to the 1950s, don’t they? Pretty soon it will be black and white.
  
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ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I’m reminded of how the high-resolution footage of Space-X’s landing [attempts] from a few years ago stoked massive waves of paranoia and conspiracy across the internet because nobody had ever seen such modern footage of a spacecraft in motion and most people who saw it thought it was fake.

People really want to feel like they’ve figured something special out, in a world where media and information is constantly changing and advancing.

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- brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Agreed.
  
  Though I wouldn’t disparage investigation. I’d perhaps rephrase that: “I don’t have much experience with this topic,” as a sentiment, seems to have disappeared. The Trump admin is kind of a perfect embodiment of that.
  
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