U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last week posted a photo of the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong, one of three activists who had entered a St. Paul, Minn. church to confront a pastor who also serves as acting field director of the St Paul Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office...
  • Kissaki@feddit.orgEnglish
    12·
    6 days ago

    They should have put the images side by side in the article instead of only linking to X (where they may even disappear).

    via xcancel:

    Before Editing After Editing
  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    9·
    6 days ago

    Man, are they gonna be pissed when people use this against them as well. Collectively we have more time to do stupid shit :)

    • Kissaki@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      Those seeking truth are misled into lies. Those seeking things that fit their agenda or views find lies.

      It’s a pretty asymmetric balance. No matter how much more time we have collectively, Trump and MAGA don’t care. If we lie about what they will catch on to, I imagine it would be things they’d radicalize and self-validate them more. Everything else, they’ll disregard. Like they have been doing for years with founded reporting etc.

      They also have the centralized platform to propagate and promote.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    6 days ago

    Looks like we’re going to end up a crossover of North Korea and Russia.

    All because conservatives hate America and enough others don’t give enough of a fuck to stop conservatives from destroying America.

  • Kissaki@feddit.orgEnglish
    1·
    6 days ago

    Today, German public broadcasting morning show was showing a supposed video of the one recently shot dead, supposedly kicking ICE cars and cursing at them and then being wrestled to the ground, and supposedly escaping afterwards. The movement looked strange to me, which made me suspect AI.

    Can anyone confirm whether such a video is in circulation and the validity of it?

    I most certainly wouldn’t be surprised if it were AI generated.

      • Kissaki@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        I had written to them, and they pointed to a CNN source, which mentioned another video from a different angle, and the family confirmed it was them in the video. So yeah, seems like it was valid.

        • OrangeSlice@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          I didn’t actually see it myself, but I heard a lot of people thought it looked AI at first and that it was genuine (alternate angles and stuff like you said). It’s good to check up on it (sounds like you actually put the effort in) so we can try to keep our facts straight, as hard as that is these days.

  • Hayduke@lemmy.worldEnglish
    137·
    8 days ago

    It’s ok, I never trusted any audio/video/images from this administration in the first place.

    • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
      82·
      7 days ago

      You sure? That AI video Trump made where he shat on the American public seemed convincing enough…

      • hector@lemmy.todayEnglish
        61·
        7 days ago

        Or the one with him and some soccer asshole freestyling a soccer ball in the oval office. Guy can barely walk down a ramp and he’s shitposting hackysack kicking a soccer ball.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    94·
    7 days ago

    I’m getting a lot of miles out of Orwell these days.

    This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs – to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct, nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.

    • 1984
      • lost_faith@lemmy.caEnglish
        20·
        7 days ago

        Yes, it was corrected to what the party wanted it to have been. It really is a good book, you should give it at least a once over.

      • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
        20·
        7 days ago

        You should actually read the book, or at least that part of the chapter.

        Edit: you can read the context, and the entirety of the book, for free here or at Project Gutenberg.

  • epicthundercat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    75·
    7 days ago

    My partner was fake edited in one of the DHS videos in Portland! He was wearing a moth man costume and dancing to EDM at the ICE center and they put fake smoke and filters over it to make him look scary lol… Absolutely ridiculous.

  • the_q@lemmy.zipEnglish
    796·
    8 days ago

    This is the main reason AI is being pushed into everything.

    • gens@programming.devEnglish
      892·
      8 days ago

      Main reason is money. They found a hype inducing thing and circle hyped it. Nvidia especially.

      This is just a side-effect. A nasty one.

      Disclaimer: “AI” is not completely useless.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
      8·
      7 days ago

      its useful for propaganda, because googles video AI is very hard to tell unless you have been exposed to ai videos for a while. and Right wingers are less likely to tell apart propaganda AI and real news.