Deepfake of Washington County, Oregon, Candidate Goes Viral Nationwide(oregonjournalismproject.org) |
Deepfake of Washington County, Oregon, Candidate Goes Viral Nationwide(oregonjournalismproject.org) |
It would be interesting to know where the "corrected" deepfake originated.
screenshot for posterity: https://i.postimg.cc/vTCTyYZ1/Screenshot.png
Also worth noting at the time of this comment the lovely fact-checking website Axios is also still blatantly lying. Absolutely crazy this is all getting swept under the rug.
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https://lookaside.fbsbx...
[0] https://openai.com/research/verify/
e: Okay, now I feel stupid for even bothering to do that. Look below her name and you'll see the leftovers of the old flag.
edit 2: Retracted. https://www.oregonjournalismproject.org/editors-note-october...
https://x.com/kgallella/status/2112332869461045733
https://x.com/Honest_Bender/status/2112301833708519659
Of course it doesn't conclusively prove that the flag was definitely right side up, but you'd really have to bend over backwards to explain why Oregon Journalism Project's "debunking" is watermarked but the counter-debunkings aren't.
Oh wait, she is Somali and all the rabid racists right wing trolls latched on to it. Now I am supposed to be concerned about the fake edit. I'm not.
This keeps happening because it works. But why does it work? Why isn't there blowback?
This has always been the case.
However, the more interesting thing going on is that we have never had to reckon with this problem anywhere near as much as we do now, since the barrier to creating fakes has been reduced from "skilled, motivated software user" to "all five billion humans who can write".
Edit: I think this comment is neutral enough to stand even under the new information that this might have been a cries-wolf situation, but I am acknowledging the fact.
Simply provide the new information, rather than snarkily implying that the parent is some kind of asshole. Save that for the normal internet.
edit: the story was retracted so the "people manipulated with lies" are the people who believed oregon journalism project?
But it is also ridiculous that the people predisposed to the other side (and who only made a big deal out of the original clip in the first place because they are racist misogynists) will hold up this relatively insignificant lie as some sort of an outrage while pulling the lever for the likes of Trump who lies as easily as he breathes.
Do you get so upset about the flag when it's used as napkins, plates, thongs, or toilet paper?
It is a really dumb virtue-signaling protest thing. In fact, it has nothing to do with the actual "distress signal" that it is meant to be.
> America is very much in distress
But you don't invert the flag when your nation is in distress. You invert the flag when your vessel is in distress. Inverted flag is a 9-1-1 call to all who can see it. It indicates immediate and extreme danger to life, limb, or property.
Furthermore, it is not up to us dumb citizens to determine when our entire nation is in distress. Honestly, our nation is bigger than you or me, and she can fend for herself on her own merits, without us telling her how she should feel. If "all America is in distress" then who will come and save her, huh? We are sovereign and that means we take care of our own messes, and solve our own problems!
Let's leave the inverted flag for its true meaning, which is individual or vessel-wide distress. Anything else is just posturing and performative slacktivism.
> Furthermore, it is not up to us dumb citizens to determine when our entire nation is in distress. Honestly, our nation is bigger than you or me, and she can fend for herself on her own merits, without us telling her how she should feel. If "all America is in distress" then who will come and save her, huh? We are sovereign and that means we take care of our own messes, and solve our own problems!
Nonsensical.
> Let's leave the inverted flag for its true meaning, which is individual or vessel-wide distress. Anything else is just posturing and performative slacktivism.
Running for office is slacktivism now? You gotta try harder to justify your fake outrage, this is just lazy.
It's pretty obvious the OP is a thinly veiled attack at whoever believed the "lie", dressed up as a question. The only saving grace is that the wording was so ambiguous that regardless of whether it was the debunking or counter-debunking that was correct, the comment would still be applicable.
And now that you’ve said that I’ve retried the same image 5 times and gotten AI 3 times and Not AI twice.
Something tells me that tools is about as reliable as Pangram.
As an example, I can screenshot your comment and have AI edit it to have you say “I really enjoy misleading people on the internet for money”, post it, and then say “I took this screenshot before they deleted it.”
"The U.S. Flag Code (4 U.S.C. § 8(a)) states that the flag 'should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.'"
Treating institutional or policy disagreements as equivalent to "extreme danger to life or property" is an insane stretch of the meaning of those words. But in the post-modern world every word means whatever the person thinks it means, so it's not surprising to see people able to reconcile that in their minds.
I'm really curious to get your take on how that makes me a racist misogynist though.
I do see this woman wears a hijab.
Just a simple deduction.
P.S. The culture warriors on X that made this go viral to begin with are very much racist and misogynist. So it is a safe bet to assume you, who is posting the story here, are also one.
But also just look at the bottom-left of the image as is mentioned elsewhere in this comment thread: they didn't even bother to photoshop the entire image in their "debunk".
