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White House Posts Digitally Altered Image of Woman Arrested After ICE Protest
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- chiengineer 9mo agoI mean you arent wrong but this isnt even considered propaganda It has nothing to do with trying to convince people of anything Its a straight up fabrication of real life its a lie lie lie. Propaganda lies but not this directly This is an attack on free speech and everyone who has a say needs to have their heads examined if this is the new norm
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- zzrrt 9mo ago> nothing to do with trying to convince people of anything Maybe not convincing of any hard facts, but it’s about portraying protestors as weak or even perhaps paid actors dramatically crying, or faking some extra cruelty to keep the supporters pumped up for ICE.
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- krapp 9mo agoWhy would you create an alt account then delete your post? What's the point?
- johannesberlin 9mo agowhat is going on in america? it’s starting to look like a social experiment
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- 1attice 9mo agoYou know exactly what is going on here. Don't let it happen where you are. Stay safe
- greggoB 9mo agoMy best interpretation is that the apparent craziness of everything we're seeing reflects the level of how much the social order has really broken down. We saw similar (albeit somehow tamer by contrast) things in South Africa during the excesses of the State Capture [0] years - people (mostly those complicit in trashing the country) started to do and say bonkers things. Jacob Zuma (like Trump) also acted as a lightning rod for these types of crazy characters. Genuinely sensible members of the public started to fabricate or grasp at wild explanations for what was going on. It took a major toll. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zondo_Commission https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zondo_Commission
- pseudohadamard 9mo agoGood analogy. Trevor Noah once joked that Trump would make a great African dictator and it looks like that's now turning to reality. Listen properly!
- greggoB 9mo ago> Trevor Noah once joked that Trump would make a great African dictator and it looks like that's now turning to reality I find people are much less dismissive of this comparison now compared to his 1st term. > Listen properly! For those who don't get the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqNa6992ih4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqNa6992ih4. Always fun to have a reason to give it another watch :)
- treetalker 9mo ago> Asked whether the image had been digitally altered, the White House responded by sending a post on X from Kaelan Dorr, the deputy communications director. > “YET AGAIN to the people who feel the need to reflexively defend perpetrators of heinous crimes in our country I share with you this message: Enforcement of the law will continue. The memes will continue. Thank you for your attention to this matter,” he said. Of note: - government fabricating (with "AI", read: generative image model) contemporaneous image of arrestee - when questioned about fabrication, official response refers to deputy communications director's Twitter post - said tweet ridicules defense of alleged perpetrator — that is, defending criminal defendant, and/or not merely presuming guilt of arrestee - said tweet indicates that government's memes regarding accuseds (that is, people who have not been tried and convicted by a jury of their peers) will continue - said tweet parrots Trump's own tweet style --- Watch this post get flagged and buried despite (1) being about tech (use of generative models in daily life, and by government no less); (2) being news; and (3) being evidence of government's disregard for truth, judicial determination of facts, and constitutional rights. Also, note the blurring of the separation of church and state: arrest occurred at demonstration against ICE acting field director who also happens to be a church pastor. Bonkers.
- NewJazz 9mo agoAlso "heinous crime", really? Were any children raped? Were any folks strangled in their cells?
- barbazoo 9mo agoWords have no meaning anymore. It’s really frustrating. Words used to mean things and you mostly only used them when they applied.
- cafard 9mo agoI don't quite get your point about the blurring of church and state. What a government employee does with his own time can hardly be considered an act of the government. Having said that, I otherwise agree with you, though I don't know about the flagging. > - said tweet parrots Trump's own tweet style Haven't you noticed that grownups in the presence of a baby will speak baby talk?
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- LarsKrimi 9mo agoWhich AI provider was used?
- forix 9mo agoIt's almost certainly Palantir. That's what appears to be the "AI" provider for government and big enterprises.
- nickthegreek 9mo agoPalantir has an image generation model? It seems to me that Grok is the most likely as its already on the network where the image was posted and is known to be used for this sort of thing. Gemini has no problem creating the image from the source either.
- darth_aardvark 9mo agoIn no way am I defending Palantir, but literally any random official or intern could've created this with any random AI generation model. It's not like the government is requiring people use any kind of ACLs or officially approved software to do stuff anymore.
- Noaidi 9mo agoI just thought of a crazy analogy. I was on the internet in the mid 90's, using gopher and usenet, etc. It was great then because only the smart people knew how to get on. Then in the mid 00's it all went to sht. Now we come to graphic design. It used to be only smart people knew how to use photoshop to manipulate images, but now we have given any idiot the power to manipulate images with AI and this is where we are.
- SketchySeaBeast 9mo agoI think you're missing the actual problem. It's not great that idiots now have the power to photoshop images, the real problem is that those idiots who would do that have been given the power to run the country.
- Noaidi 9mo agoI am quite aware of the problem. Idiots have always run the country.
- SketchySeaBeast 9mo agoNot like this. Not so bald-faced, never so unabashed.
- ixalender 9mo agoWho ultimately created this image? The Guardian or the White House? :)
- hbogert 9mo agoI'll go continue reading neuromancer and blade runner, it's always good to imprint one selves to what's to come. I'm not talking about the robot and cybernetics part, but the modern feudal system.