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India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters' faces

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Re: India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters' faces

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Post by lagolinguini »

prhrb wrote: post #5

Context: The day this happened was the inauguration of new Parliament building of India.

The inauguration of the new Parliament building where:

- None of the major opposition parties attended

- The President and other constitutional heads were not invited

- The protesting athletes were arrested

- One religion was in the spotlight, as opposed to the Indian brand of secularism where ceremonies of all religions should have been conducted

- On the day of Savarkar's (Hindu nationalist) birth anniversary

- The PM treating it as a vanity project/personal PR photoshoot

Re: India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters' faces

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Post by comprev »

capableweb wrote: post #8

> Verified account @wokeflix_ tweeted the same image in a meme > Verified account @randomsena tweeted the same image > Another verified account, @RealAtulsay, tweeted the same image Isn't "Verified" on Twitter just a subscription now, meaning it's just that these people have given Twitter money? Why it matters (in a journalistic sense) who has paid Twitter or not? And why are only some of the verified accounts mentio…

I suspect there is considerable overlap in a Venn diagram of those who never hear about the image being manipulated and those who still think a blue tick is reserved for human-verified accounts.

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Post by collsni »

Just the beginning, what happens when it becomes impossible to parse fact and fiction?

I mean rsa 2048 can be currently broken in 104 days, and we'll be at quantum levels sooner than we realize.

How we validating anything after that? Biometric?

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Post by matsemann »

capableweb wrote: post #8

> Verified account @wokeflix_ tweeted the same image in a meme > Verified account @randomsena tweeted the same image > Another verified account, @RealAtulsay, tweeted the same image Isn't "Verified" on Twitter just a subscription now, meaning it's just that these people have given Twitter money? Why it matters (in a journalistic sense) who has paid Twitter or not? And why are only some of the verified accounts mentio…

I think that's their point. It's a way of subtly pointing out that verification on Twitter is now useless, and shouldn't be trusted any more than claims from any other user. Even less, I guess, since it's not a equal distribution of people paying for verification, they all skew pretty hard to one side.

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Post by EscapeFromNY »

juujian wrote: post #6

That is getting real freaking dystopian. Sure, we would have been able to do this before, and the Soviet Union did a ton of photo editing. But doing this particular edit must have been so easy. No cost at all, no mental barrier. You would almost think 'why bother'. And before anyone says 'yeah, but the truth came out'. Well, we saw it, but how many of the particular audience of whatever that outlet was will never see…

> yeah, but the truth came out

The truth came out this time. To borrow from Ozark: this isn't the only time they doctored photos, it's the only time they got caught.

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Post by lagolinguini »

isanjay wrote: post #14

BJP is proper Authoritarian. This is coming from a right leaning person.

The sad thing is they will probably win again in 2024. The damage that 15 years of BJP has done to the social fabric of India, and the undermining of the core founding principles of the republic will last for generations. It's hard to imagine it going away :(

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Post by otikik »

prhrb wrote: post #5

Context: The day this happened was the inauguration of new Parliament building of India.

Why is that relevant? People should not get arrested for protesting sexual harassment, even if others are inaugurating a new Taj Mahal.
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