What can we do, society is beyond cooked. Your friends, neighbors, colleagues, teachers, lawyers, many many people cannot identify a random still AI image right now, nevermind a fictional cohesive motion picture. They are unaware how far the tech has progressed and extent it’s become weaponized. What actually can be done?
The Daily Wire is now trying to pass off AI slop as actual footage from Palestine.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by destructdisc@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
1984@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Spread information about it. Use those shitty big tech social networks to constantly post and show people what is possible. At least then they can be fairly useful instead of chatting about what Trump or Musk or Zuck decided to say today to get their daily attention drug.
lath@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Reinvent the wheel.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oklahoma state agencies are using bot accounts on Facebook to support deeply unpopular and illegal actions - like a turnpike that they are going to build without doing any form of environmental impact study (and lots of eminent domain bullshit.)
Greg@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Why do you think this video was fake?
ArchRecord@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I’m not inclined to trust The Daily Wire, but I also can’t exactly see anything that stands out like crazy that makes me think it’s fake.
It definitely has a somewhat surreal feeling look to it, but I’ve been tracking various faces and objects in the background and they don’t seem to move, change, or distort at all in a way that’s unnatural.
Either AI video generation technology got insanely good (or they just had a very lucky break with happening to get a good quality output) and I’m simply not able to fully identify it, or the video is real but the context and quote is what’s fake.
KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol 3 weeks ago
I think I might be going insane. Every rock, face and little detail remains the same, yet it feels weird af.
Can we no longer trust any media?
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think the feeling weird might just be that the depth of field is narrow and keeps changing. It creates a really strange look. No idea I’d thats a common thing in AI video but it seems like it could just be a quirk of how they chose to film…
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I zoomed in on one frame - it’s a kind mess of abstract lines and smears, but it also could be AI enhancement with a modern phone, imo. I’d like additional supporting evidence as well.
Frame
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t know anything about how cameras are “enhancing” pictures/videos but in your still I would wonder 1: how is this wire supposedly connected to these randomly placed fence posts, and 2 what is happening here, arms and faces all through the wiring?
morrowind@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Tbh, it doesn’t matter, the video doesn’t show anything. Its just some random guy and people cheering. It could have been shot in Croatia for all we know.
RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Regardless of whether or not this is ai:
There’s no evidence that there was a roadblock.
If there was a roadblock, then we still don’t know whether or not it was put up by Hamas.
Despite there being sound recording on site, no cries of “thank you america” are recorded. As well it being a ridiculous claim that panders more to american republican sensitivities (they said thank you) than any normal behaviour, there is again no evidence for this happening.This xheet reads like one of those stories that ends with “and then everybody clapped”: totally made up.
The same kind of misinformation has existed long before ai image generation became a thing. To increase the credibility of false narratives with a non critical audience, the video and audio only needs to vaguely resemble what is being described. They can take a snippet from a real video recording from another place and time + real audio recording from yet another place and time, and call it good enough.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Saleh@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Hamas has set up a roadblock? I thought the area was under IDF control…
Even when they lie they lie.
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It doesn’t look fake to me
bnrnrtbgd@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Daily Wire is in no sense of the word, in no way that has ever existed, a news agency.
CouldntCareBear@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Except it isn’t fake, and no evidence has been offered that it is.
Why is this fud being upvoted?
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
daily wire is owned none other than ben shapiro himself.
lime@feddit.nu 3 weeks ago
there’s no source for this being ai. it doesn’t look like any ai video i’ve seen. the clip is way too long, for one.
jballs@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It doesn’t look all too different than these AI videos from 6 months ago. The length is about the same as many of those examples as well.
lime@feddit.nu 3 weeks ago
i think the only one that matches in grading (e.g. is not hyper-stylized) is the jeep one and that one looks like ass.
i’ve obviously missed a bit of development since last year though.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Expect more and more in the years to come
In about a year a quarter of the reports everywhere will be like this
In about two years, there will be entire programs devoted to whether or not videos, speeches or images are real or not … and it will just get harder and harder to decided what is real and what isn’t
In about five years, no one in the public will be sure what is real and what isn’t on the internet, in the news, on social media or any where.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Swedish public service actually already has a program where you can send in… Anything I guess… And if they get enough requests they’ll investigate it
OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Any journalist trying to pass a fake video as news should be called to a civil or criminal court, same as medical malpractices
lectricleopard@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m gonna hazard a guess that you are right about the trend, give or take on the time. However, there will be someone that claims some authority on what is and isn’t accurate.
Its been the job of journalists up until now, but this how they’ll finally supplant all of news media with their own (a golden Trump head of truth next to the post means grok has looked it over and says its real).
That or an open-source tool will be developed to detect ai media, and we are able to run it locally to confirm. This is my preferred outcome. Maybe I need to start doing some reading.
raltoid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m sort of surprised people haven’t started to implement some hidden visual verification in their broadcasts. So they can prove that deepfakes aren’t real.
bold_atlas@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They won’t do that because their corporate fingerprint will then be all over the demented, often illegal, sexual material that people make with these things.
DandomRude@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This seems pretty inevitable, since it should really be journalism in particular that exposes and names such wrongdoings.
In a democracy, it theoretically has an important corrective function, but independent investigative journalism is already virtually non-existent (too expensive), and so in practice it is becoming increasingly unlikely that abuses will be remedied and those responsible prosecuted.
This leads to a situation that is already reality in the US, where serious journalism has already been largely replaced by mindless entertainment or even propaganda - I also think it’s only going to get worse.