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Whats up with all the AI videos? Or should I delete Xitter again and touch grass.

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[–] Muehe@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Whats up with all the AI videos?

Infowar in full swing from all sides. At this point people are dead when their own side admits they are. Just like I didn't believe Khamenei was dead until Iran said so, I won't believe Bubi is dead until Israel says so.

[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 9 hours ago (2 children)
[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 3 points 5 hours ago

Couldn't you just take the original video and use AI to replace him in these videos? That's the space were in right now, you can have a real video, call it AI, then prove it's AI by using AI to replace parts of the real video with AI parts within the same video.

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 9 hours ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not getting my hopes up. Tbh I just don't see how his death would remain a secret for longer than a day or two. He's the PM of a nation at war, he has to talk to so many different people every day, his death would have major immediate consequences for the internal politics of Israel, you can't just Weekend at Bernie's your way through that.

Basically if he was dead, there'd be so many people who would have to be in the know that it would leak sooner than later. And we'd have more indicators than a few weird twitter videos.

[–] MarxMadness@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago

you can't just Weekend at Bernie's your way through that

I agree it's unlikely, but look at all the stage-managing of Trump and Biden through their obvious mental and physical declines. Look at all the historical examples we have of sitting U.S. presidents in particular hiding serious ailments from the public (Wilson, FDR, Reagan, and Biden come to mind). There's a tradition of covering this stuff up, a willingness to do it even today, and more resources than ever.

Covering up the death of a prime minister or president would be a leap from what we've already seen, but you see all sorts of extraordinary lies during wartime, and admitting your leader was killed would be a huge propaganda loss for Iron Dome colony in particular.

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Everyone asking "Netanyahu?", when they should be asking "Netanya-where?"

Fates willing, the where in question is - scattered all over Tel-Aviv in tiny chunks. More likely scenario is that they shuffled him off somewhere abroad to sit out the bombing safely, probably Germany or the US.

Netanyawhywhywhywhy whywhywhywhywhy

[–] miz@hexbear.net 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

don't care about whether Netanyahu lives or dies, only care that zionism dies

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago

Can I celebrate his death a little bit? As a treat?

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 37 points 1 day ago

Or should I delete Xitter again and touch grass.

The answer to this is yes, regardless of how many machine generated videos of Satan-Yahoo you see

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

idk if he's dead but this video is AI(weather completely generated or automatic post-processing done by whatever platform without the intention of the uploader) but politifact and that are making you focus on the 'extra finger' which is just artifact9ing that may happen in a normally video, the real hint is his teeth disappearing at some point

I'll try find the previous thread on this here which had more

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from https://hexbear.net/post/7951644?scrollToComments=false

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nah, he's prolly fled, more likely.

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago

Yeah, this actually seems way more likely to me as well. They're hiding him, but it's to cover up that he immediately fled the region as soon as there was any threat of harm to him. That would explain both why he hasn't appeared in public and why nobody in the government has leaked anything: he's still running the show, but he's doing it from a secure location outside the local area. They've got good reason to hide that too--seeing him run away would be a huge hit to morale for the 14 year old major generals in charge of the army.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

Fled where, though? Back to Pennsylvania where he's actually from?

[–] BironyPoisoned@hexbear.net 37 points 1 day ago

If he is, we wouldn't know. If he isn't, we wouldn't know.

If Israel has one MO, it's obfuscation. They're either hiding his death to prepare for a morale loss or pretending he's dead to make Iran waste more resources confirming it.

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago

That the Israelis aren't seizing upon the opportunity to spin a "woe is me" narrative is all the proof that I need that Netanyahu is quite alive.

[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 33 points 1 day ago

He's doing a tour of all the European Eyes Wide Shut parties to collect blackmail material to draw the rest of the westerners into running the Hormuz gauntlet

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

touch grass, the zionist entity doesn't have any actual dedication to specifically netanyahu, the next most popular guy to netanyahu is even farther to the right, they will eventually have to admit that the head of state is dead or they'll have him unambiguously videoed alive. it doesn't really matter either way.

[–] WokePalpatine@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Him dying advances the dialectic. ZioLibs have been using him as a scapegoat and will be forced to make a new argument that will also collapse under scrutiny.

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

i think they'll just say "it's [next guy]'s fault" when the courageous IRGC takes out netanyahu, but who knows lol

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don’t gaf if he’s actually the most wholesome uncle in Israel, think ~~Iran~~the world needs a prominent Israeli scalp

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

while i would also like to see it, historical materialism does not agree with the importance of one greatly evil man in a society of greatly evil people to that society's continuity.

[–] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was pretty worked up too at first but I looked harder at the picture and realized it doesn't actually show him with six fingers. If you look really closely at the spot you'll see that it's actually some swamp gas from a weather balloon trapped in a thermal pocket that refracted the light from Venus.

It's not AI; he killed the swordsmith Domingo Montoya

[–] birdcat@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 day ago

He is so obviously dead that I start to believe he is actually still alive.

[–] whatdoiputhere12@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

yeah not getting my hopes up, but even if he is dead ( timmy-pray ) someone worse would take his position, not like israel would be .1% less shitter just cus he's history

[–] arymandias@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago

I’m already imagining the german greens supporting every single word prime minister ben gvir has to say

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago
[–] CommunistBear@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago
[–] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The video pictured is not AI, at least not for the "6th finger" because it isn't a sixth finger, its a shadow. Watch the whole thing and its very easy to tell

[–] alkbch@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Pay attention to the disappearing teeth

[–] ProgAimerGirl@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

y'all don't get it; NOW is the time to be on polymarket, before the squeeze up hits

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

Is there a Fist of the North Star version of goku-halal