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Re: Zelensky video deepfake

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Don’t bring schizophrenia into this. These people are overwhelmingly not schizophrenics nor is affinity towards conspiracy theories commonplace in schizoaffective disorders

This is important. Comments like that perpetuate the stigmatization of mental illness. People don't necessarily have to be mentally ill to have weird or harmful beliefs

The fact you are paranoid doesn't mean they are not after you.

Re: Zelensky video deepfake

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I always find it interesting to watch the trickle down of news I find here on HN. I live in a very, very, very conservative part of the US. It always goes the same; see fake thing called out for being fake on HN. One week later, hear rumblings related to the fake thing in my community. One week after that, hear people openly talking about how that fake thing is true, but Google/MSM don't want you to hear about it. Su…

> I always find it interesting to watch the trickle down of news I find here on HN. I live in a very, very, very conservative part of the US. It always goes the same; see fake thing called out for being fake on HN. One week later, hear rumblings related to the fake thing in my community. One week after that, hear people openly talking about how that fake thing is true, but Google/MSM don't want you to hear about it.…

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Re: Zelensky video deepfake

#173
post #141

I've seen a deep fake with Putin "surrendering" on 28th of February: https://youtu.be/ZbudZw1LlHg I guess the video itself was made even earlier than that. The video is not excellent, but the audio is pretty spot on, if you ask me. Edit: re-worded the first sentence.

-258 views -nonsensical title -no comments -all videos on account are unlisted -you just found it Hmmm. How did you “find” this?

To add on:

- Largely inactive since 2019 until ~15 days ago.

- Ukrainian with ML background[1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20083793#20093381, Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210224044558/https://news.ycom...

Re: Zelensky video deepfake

#174

In Swedish telephone directories there used to be a section entitled "Om kriget kommer" (If there's war). Prominent among it was the phrase: > Varje meddelande att motsåndet ska uppges är falskt. (Every message stating that resistance has ceased is false). No doubt something similar is stated in Ukraine. https://www.forsvarsmakten.se/siteassets/5-information-och-f...

Interesting! By the way, I'm curious about the word "uppges" . After running the sentence both through DeepL.com and Google Translate they seem to return the translation "Any message that the resistance should be stated is false" (though DeepL does list "abandoned" and "quit" among many options in the translation result dropdown). Also, after checking out Wiktionary [0]. I see it only lists "to give as a fact; to sta…

"Uppge" is tricky because normally the way the word is used today, it means to give information, but in this case it's a way of throwing around the verb phrase "ge upp" (lit. 'give up', mentioned further down on Wiktionary), which means quite exactly to surrender.

The text is from the 60's and it shows in exactly the type of language used.

Re: Zelensky video deepfake

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post #141

I've seen a deep fake with Putin "surrendering" on 28th of February: https://youtu.be/ZbudZw1LlHg I guess the video itself was made even earlier than that. The video is not excellent, but the audio is pretty spot on, if you ask me. Edit: re-worded the first sentence.

-258 views -nonsensical title -no comments -all videos on account are unlisted -you just found it Hmmm. How did you “find” this?

Most communities and bot network coordinators these days organize through Telegram. There's ton of easily fake materials (propaganda stuff, staged fakes, deceptively out of context or material first claimed to be something then appearing on another channel as something else).

After the initial piloting fake information spreads like virus.

Re: Zelensky video deepfake

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> He's not a Nazi, of course, him being of Jewish ancestry, That is strong evidence that he isn't, but short of proof. A counterexample from California: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Unz

>> He's not a Nazi, of course, him being of Jewish ancestry, > That is strong evidence that he isn't, but short of proof. It's about the strongest evidence possible. Also, I'd think a person who's such a raw contradiction of "Jewish Nazi" would show signs of obvious psychological illness (either as a cause or a symptom, e.g. suicide to help the final solution along). Add to that the fact that the claim he's a Nazi ha…

> It's about the strongest evidence possible.

It's not as strong as the synthesis of all the other evidence, particularly: his actions and statements throughout life, none of which point towards him being a Nazi. That is stronger evidence than his ethnic identity.

With respect to Ron Unz, you might want to read that wikipedia page more carefully than a quick C-f; that guy is a big fan of Hitler and hating jews. The same synthesis of actions and statements that vindicate Zelensky will plainly damn Unz.

Re: Zelensky video deepfake

#177
post #141

I've seen a deep fake with Putin "surrendering" on 28th of February: https://youtu.be/ZbudZw1LlHg I guess the video itself was made even earlier than that. The video is not excellent, but the audio is pretty spot on, if you ask me. Edit: re-worded the first sentence.

-258 views -nonsensical title -no comments -all videos on account are unlisted -you just found it Hmmm. How did you “find” this?

dude, the youtube channel name is the same as his profile here. maybe he just uploaded it, but got it on telegram or whatever. it's not about how he found/made it. but the quality compared to OP.

Re: Zelensky video deepfake

#178
post #141

I've seen a deep fake with Putin "surrendering" on 28th of February: https://youtu.be/ZbudZw1LlHg I guess the video itself was made even earlier than that. The video is not excellent, but the audio is pretty spot on, if you ask me. Edit: re-worded the first sentence.

-258 views -nonsensical title -no comments -all videos on account are unlisted -you just found it Hmmm. How did you “find” this?

> Hmmm. How did you “find” this?

To be clear: the video is not mine. I simply uploaded it to youtube as an unlisted video to support my point. This original video was posted on Feb 28th to one of telegram channels I'm subbed to. The channel is https://t.me/wildwildhack which is a channel for "wild wild hack" hackathon organized by the reface.ai guys.

Re: Zelensky video deepfake

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That's true for now, but eventually, as the technology progresses, it will take very little training data to create deepfakes of anyone unfortunately. Probably just a minute or two of video.

Is this true? I don't see much evidence that the technology is progressing in a direction where models will require less training data, if anything the trend seems to be towards models with higher and higher parameter counts.

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Re: Zelensky video deepfake

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post #141

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-258 views -nonsensical title -no comments -all videos on account are unlisted -you just found it Hmmm. How did you “find” this?

To add on: - Largely inactive since 2019 until ~15 days ago. - Ukrainian with ML background[1] [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20083793#20093381 , Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210224044558/https://news.ycom...

That's my old gmail account that I've since abandoned because I moved to yuriy@znovyak.com (my first name @ my last name). My google apps account (znovyak.com) doesn't have youtube enabled, so I uploaded this to youtube channel associated with my old (since high school) gmail.
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