That’s because bellingcat want to convince everyone AI image fakes are really common and hard to spot when actually they’re pretty easy to spot these days and tend to only appeal to the already converted since as soon as you show someone something they disagree with, they don’t just change their minds they actually immediately seek to debunk it because that’s the lighter mental load.
Bellingcat don’t actually need to convince you deepfakes are a real thing because deepfakes are not a real problem. Their true desire is the ability to denounce even photographic evidence of atrocities as fake when it’s convenient for them to straight up deny reality.
Good foresight and a good thing to remember comrade, thank you.
this is a very smart comment.
I remember a similar panic when photoshop started to become good and usable for mainstream machines, and there was a time when obviously real stuff would be claimed to be “photoshopped” just because people seemed to think that photoshopped images were utterly indistinguishable from real ones.
Then, rather quickly, people figured out that there are softwares that can spot manipulation extremely easily and it all turned out to be not that much of an issue after all.
though now i wonder if i could possibly commit a crime while wearing makeup that makes my face seem ai-generated and then claim in court that the evidence is just a deepfake
Braindead yankees in the Twitter comments thinking arresting the orange man is going to magically fix the US and make it the best place on the planet lol
they think symbolism matters to change the world
they have a point, remember how they destroyed the People’s Republic of China by copypasting Winnie the Pooh memes?
it’s getting hilarious to see liberals STILL blame Trump for stuff.
I have seen them blame Trump for lifting the safety regulations that caused the Ohio train crash. Lmao, Biden has been in power for two years, how is he not to blame for failing to do anything to fix Trump’s mistake? Why exactly were we supposed to vote for him again? So that the dems can get credit for what works while all mistakes and fails from 2016 to 2099 are al scapegoat’d onto Trump?
It’s funny that even the feds are abusing ai Trump. My favorite is this video where he and Biden argue about FE7 Nino.
Yeah that was great
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the gamer AI president videos that have been popping up on youtube are usually pretty funny, i remember laughing at the one where they make a zelda tier list
the minecraft ones are hysterical
The left most picture has Trump with three legs, simultaneously moving backwards and forwards. The cop in the foreground is reaching through perspective to grab Trumps dick. The right most cop is in his own world, freakishly in focus, and can’t be placed anywhere in the physical world.
The other picture also makes no sense of the same reasons. Legs look twisted and broken. The cop seems to grab hold of Trumps leg at the knee for it to spill over into a liquid before reforming in a totally wrong position. And physically it would make no sense to have your hand there.
The images are painful to look at. Arguing whether they’re convincing is so far afield as to be confusing.
AI generated images are meant to “work” at a first glance, pretty much anything that is AI generated looks like shit the moment you actually zoom in.
I have seen images from ukrainian sources depicting “piles of russian KIA” and it was so painfully obvious how fake it was as soon as you zoomed in and saw limbs and faces growing out of torsos in random places and directions
Where can I look at the pictures? This article doesn’t seem to have them. (I just want to see them to form my own opinion on whether they’re convincing or not.)
Scroll down the article
Oh, thanks. Must have not loaded for me because I block JavaScript by default…
I do that sometimes to avoid popups or article subscription locks
Coverage of machine learning related stuff has obliterated the last shred of faith I had in mainstream media. Journalists even worth their weight in dirt would have ideally demystified these technologies. Instead what we get is people who talk about AI like medieval peasants.
don’t get me started on it. The most apparent sign of how successfully and thoroughly capitalism has dismantled and destroyed the western cultural heritage is exactly this: people act excited at the prospect of automating art and creative writing instead of horrified and worried about what that could entail for the creative area of human cultural development.
Yeah, AI can make cool images, if you are fine with those images having no style whatsoever and no real drive other than being purely descriptive.
