Trump delivered to us this uncanny video in which he denounces the killing of Kirk and blames the left’s rhetoric as the sole cause of this unfathomable act.

Am I crazy, or is this obviously AI?

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    I posted this earlier.

    He straight up loses a finger.

    Slowed down:

    Zoomed in on the fingers.

    Use the time line to scrub the video. He loses the pinky and gains an additional digit on top, and everything just shifts down one register.

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      I think this may be just interpolation weirdness. Apparently the video was recorded in 24fps but encoded in 60.

      See this analysis, I posted it in another comment: https://youtube.com/shorts/hXhDB1fK7ok

      Edit: worth noting the interpolarion may be done by a similar AI engine which explains why it looks so similar to AI generated footage. Similar technology as the motion smoothness on TVs or DLSS frame gen. If it truly is 24-60fps and the interpolation is done by AI this would indicate over half the frames are AI generated. Would explain a lot while not necessarily meaning the video as a whole is AI.

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        just visually track the tip of his middle finger. And keep track of how many fingers are supposed to be past it.

        His middle finger litterally becomes his ring finger.

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          I know, im seeing what you mean. I’m saying that could very much be an issue with interpolation. Especially if its AI interpolation. I edited my comment to add a bit more detail but its possible that over half the frames of this video are AI generated while the video itself is still real. Obviously I cant say for sure that that’s what is happening but this very much could be an interpolation artifact. Even in non-genAI interpolation, weird smudginess and morphing of fast moving objects in interpolated frames is a common and well known issue.

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            I could accept AI enhanced, but also, like…I’ve been looking at it a lot.

            He’s way too still. Uncannily still. The chair doesn’t move. At all. It’s in high resolution. But isn’t.

            And the finger thing. Its such an extremely well established issue with these kinds of videos.

            It’s got enough red flags I’ll be looking for more coverage on the matter.

            Regardless, it’s so unbelievably wildy inappropriate to be doing any kind of ai enhanced or even smoothed editing to the words of a world leader when those words have incredible weight impact and are effectively legally binding.

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              I’m looking at it more and I’m fairly certain this is just interpolated.

              Look at this frame:

              Seems to me to be pretty normal. No weird hand stuff, fingers look fine.

              Now look at the next two frames, particularly the second one:

              Totally jank. Fingers are blotchy, there’s a ghost finger, overall looks super fake. But then look at the next two frames:

              Second to last has a little bit of weirdness still, but by the last frame it looks totally legit and real. No blotchy fingers, no ghost fingers, overall looks very normal.

              That kind of behavior - where some frames look completely fine and in between ones look blotchy and weird - is exactly what you expect from motion interpolation.

              Look at the example on a cat video on wikepedia, for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_interpolation

              The framerate is much lower on the original video here, but you can see a lot of the same kinds of artifacts. Blotchy limbs, “ghosts” in movment, things morphing in ways they shouldn’t… its very similar to what’s seen in the trump video. And mind you, to my knowledge this video is done with older interpolation methods that had nothing to do with genAI.

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                  I know. But that can totally happen in interpolated frames. Look at the cat video on the Wikipedia page. There are moments when the toy dissapears, when the kittens head splits into two, when one arm morphs into another… stuff like this is totally possible and even common for motion interpolation.

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          See some of my later replies. I’ve looked at it frame by frame and it looks exactly like the artifacts you’d see from motion interpolation. They can look very similar to AI artifacts.

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      Oh dang, I saw that post earlier and thought it was probably just him repositioning his hands, but it really was my phone not having enough resolution.

      Edit: although the motion interpolation also makes sense. I withdraw my comment, because I frankly don’t know enough about ai nor do I have good enough eyesight to responsibly have a position on this.

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      7 hours ago

      People need to stop upvoting this persons posts. Not deepfake or AI. So sad we’re already at this populism and technical illiterate stage on Lemmy.

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      whut, he just moves them so his index finger is mostly behind the middle one? you can still see it. what am I missing?

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        Use the time line to scrub the video and put your eyes on the ring finger of the left hand. The pinky dissolves into the hand, and the ring finger “becomes” the pinky.

        Now put your eyes on the index finger of the left hand and track it visually. It “becomes” the middle finger, and an entirely new finger appears to take its place.

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          It’s true, the ring finger basically becomes the pinky and the pinky disappears. His pointer magically changes position. Also, his middle knuckle looks unnatural to start off with.

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        That what I thought at first. But additional finger pops up and he still have 5 even with index finger hidden.