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...
  • epicthundercat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month 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.

    • epicthundercat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      FYI, HE WAS SURROUNDED BY OTHER COSTUMES DANCING! This was peak frog erra.

      Here is what he ACTUALLY looked like lol

  • Kissaki@feddit.orgEnglish
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    1 month 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
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        1 month 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
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          1 month 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.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month 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