• epicthundercat@lemmy.world
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    12 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.

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    12 days ago

    I would expect breaking “phone gets an update pushed out like an Amber Alert” news if anyone in the administration told the truth

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    The US government and everyone that stands behind it, they want to make those who fight against ICE look like dangerous creatures that roam the Earth and must be stopped. They want to look like they’re in total control, by making these fighters look desperate for their lives when they are arrested, by celebrating whenever one of them is killed. But most importantly, they want us to fight each other, so that we forget who is our true opponent on what is basically a war on our rights as human beings.

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    Since when have they been not using image manipulation for propaganda?

    Sure it’s way easier now, but it’s not like manipulating images is a new tactic.

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    I automatically think anything coming from this administration is propaganda bull shit taken from the horror version of Idiocracy.

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      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.

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      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.

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

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

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        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.

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    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
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        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.

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        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.