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This is a real "AI" ad from the US government about the end of the mandatory use of the auto start-stop. (cdn.social.linux.pizza)
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This is a real "AI" ad from the US government about the end of the mandatory use of the auto start-stop.

This is from the official Whitehouse Instagram.

Only things I can see that gives it away that the video is generated is the red car's brake lights being on while accelerating. The obvious stereotypes of bule haired lesbians vs the blonde.

Also they have no insignias on the cars but that's definitely a Prius and idk what the red car is, the red car might not exist in real life.

Spoting generated videos is going to get harder. However if it's obvious propaganda from the state then you should be suspicious.

It's impressive for generated video even though it is stupid as fuck. I won't get too in the weeds about why this is stupid as the point of the post is more about the use of AI in state sponsored propaganda.

Just to get it out of the way, here is why this is a stupid policy:

  • [Auto stop helps fuel economy by 7% - 26%](https://www/. consumerreports.org/cars/fuel-economy-efficiency/does-start-stop-function-really-improve-cars-fuel-economy-a1028235974/)
  • my 10+ year old car has auto stop, it can be disabled with a button, and if it needs to turn on the ac, the engine will auto start.
  • Auto stop has nothing to do with the cost of cars increasing, it's the regime's terrible policies and other factors that have driven prices up.
  • Hybrid cars like the Prius will use the electric engine at a stop.
  • forcing car companies to change features because the US president said so will increase manufacturing costs and prices.

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[–] passepartout@feddit.org 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's diabolical really. Remember the first generated videos of Will Smith eating spaghetti? That was 3 years ago.

You couldn't really trust anything anymore on the internet when more sophisticated tools like OpenAIs Sora had been released to the open world. It's not even been half a year and we now have full on nation state level propaganda that one can barely keep apart from a real video (if at all).

This one is so packed with stereotypes and "hidden" messages that you could dissect it in a school lesson on propaganda / post generative AI media.