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Investigating AI Manipulation in Viral Chinese Paraglider Video

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Re: Investigating AI Manipulation in Viral Chinese Paraglider Video

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I used to do paragliding and to me the video looks like low effort green screen more than AI. The colons don't behave like that when flying because you have a tension exactly as much as your weight and it will vibrate and jiggle as it is rare to have perfect laminar flow especially over land(it gets more stable at hight altitudes but not that stable). Also, you are supposed to have 30 to 60 kph wind blowing at you al…

Even in the short, shouldn't there be vapor visible from breathe?

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AI has finally reached a point at which it can fake videos well enough that most people will believe it. Just in time for the fake Epstein suicide video! Epstein didn't kill himself, nor is he dead. He's living out his retirement on another pedo island, as a reward for a kompromate job well done.

Based on what?

I get the conspiracy that he was killed by people with something to cover up. But what is the motivation for rewarding him?

Unless you suppose he has a very compelling dead man's switch?

Re: Investigating AI Manipulation in Viral Chinese Paraglider Video

#33
post #8

I used to do paragliding and to me the video looks like low effort green screen more than AI. The colons don't behave like that when flying because you have a tension exactly as much as your weight and it will vibrate and jiggle as it is rare to have perfect laminar flow especially over land(it gets more stable at hight altitudes but not that stable). Also, you are supposed to have 30 to 60 kph wind blowing at you al…

Sort of related, but that video feels like it might be kind of cruel to the donkey. It's hard to believe that it really enjoys flying like that (but then again maybe who knows).

Re: Investigating AI Manipulation in Viral Chinese Paraglider Video

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AI has finally reached a point at which it can fake videos well enough that most people will believe it. Just in time for the fake Epstein suicide video! Epstein didn't kill himself, nor is he dead. He's living out his retirement on another pedo island, as a reward for a kompromate job well done.

Based on what? I get the conspiracy that he was killed by people with something to cover up. But what is the motivation for rewarding him? Unless you suppose he has a very compelling dead man's switch?

Not for a second that I believe the conspiracy, but he would be rewarded for taking the blame post-mortem so a lot of other rich people don't.

Re: Investigating AI Manipulation in Viral Chinese Paraglider Video

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Based on what? I get the conspiracy that he was killed by people with something to cover up. But what is the motivation for rewarding him? Unless you suppose he has a very compelling dead man's switch?

Not for a second that I believe the conspiracy, but he would be rewarded for taking the blame post-mortem so a lot of other rich people don't .

Epstein was just a con man, he wove a fog of mystery around himself as part of the con and people are still being duped by it to this day.

Re: Investigating AI Manipulation in Viral Chinese Paraglider Video

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post #22

Whatever the outcome of this specific case, we are clearly at a tipping point in history - it’s now basically impossible to say for certain if a fake video is real, and potentially even more problematic - also impossible to say for sure that a real video is not fake. The whole concept of ‘video evidence’ is going up in smoke.

we need a modern 12 angry men were the main evidence is not testimony but AI video

Stabs a USB into the table And this identical footage of the judge doing the crime instead of the accused? Is this not plausible doubt?

Re: Investigating AI Manipulation in Viral Chinese Paraglider Video

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Based on what? I get the conspiracy that he was killed by people with something to cover up. But what is the motivation for rewarding him? Unless you suppose he has a very compelling dead man's switch?

Not for a second that I believe the conspiracy, but he would be rewarded for taking the blame post-mortem so a lot of other rich people don't .

Much safer and easier to have him killed, though.

(Not saying that he was, just that it seems the much more plausible theory than the reward one.)

Re: Investigating AI Manipulation in Viral Chinese Paraglider Video

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post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

we need a modern 12 angry men were the main evidence is not testimony but AI video

Stabs a USB into the table And this identical footage of the judge doing the crime instead of the accused? Is this not plausible doubt?

Y'know, that sounds like a potentially viable business model for an expert witness.

Counsel comes to you with footage, you create equally-plausible false footage to highlight how the original is doubtable.

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