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Woozle Hypertwin
Woozle Hypertwin
@woozle@toot.cat  ·  activity timestamp 8 hours ago

RE: https://med-mastodon.com/@cbarbermd/115984575642434357

Update

MSN confirms that this is probably AI, though it's not yet conclusive.

(On the other hand, this does seem like a positive use of AI fakery, if people are gonna do it anyway... as long as it's understood to be a joke and not an actual event.)

Video description

Someone is wearing a costume that is just a clenched fist with the middle finger extended behind them. This person is riding down a wide street (presumably sloped) on what appears to be an office chair, their legs visible below the knee. Behind them are half a dozen riot-geared thugs apparently trying to catch them and yet somehow unable to keep up with someone rolling down the hill in an office chair.

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Stoneface Vimes
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@capnthommo@c.im replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

@woozle just needs Yakketty Sax, the music on Benny Hill TV shows playing as a backing track to make it perfect.

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Jonathan
Jonathan
@jmcrookston@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

@woozle

This AI?

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Woozle Hypertwin
Woozle Hypertwin
@woozle@toot.cat replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

@jmcrookston Now that it's been mentioned to me, it seems likely; I've amended the CW.

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Jonathan
Jonathan
@jmcrookston@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

@woozle

I just found an article that suggested it was AI but lost the link.

Here's a different one from 2022 so it appears these kinds of videos rack up millions of views and it's probably fake.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ice-old-lady-scooter-video/

Snopes

Does video show ICE agents chasing older woman on mobility scooter?

The video claimed to show helicopter-shot TV news footage depicting an older woman on a mobility scooter racing away from ICE agents in a parking lot.
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Cassandrich
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@dalias@hachyderm.io replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

@woozle Almost surely AI slop unless someone can find a source or witnesses who also saw it.

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@dalias@hachyderm.io replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

@woozle Looks like it comes from a slop sewagehose "Strange AI" on Facebook Video.

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Cassandrich
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@dalias@hachyderm.io replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

@woozle BTW for folks interested in debunking methodology, all it took to find that was searching for text in the fake news banner across the bottom of the video.

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Woozle Hypertwin
Woozle Hypertwin
@woozle@toot.cat replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

@dalias Ahh! I didn't even notice that -- but yeah, it always helps to have some text. (I basically typed in a quick description, and apparently used enough of the right keywords...)

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@sysop408@sfba.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

@dalias it also looks a lot like a the Viking in a bathtub chase video that was making the rounds.

It’s absolutely AI. The agents are all about the same size and speed and wear fully matching black riot police outfits.

@woozle

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Woozle Hypertwin
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@woozle@toot.cat replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

@sysop408 @dalias On further reflection, yeah, it seems pretty clear that there was an original video (possibly real) with the agents running, and the element of the finger-costume-person (maybe also real, from an unrelated video, but maybe entirely generated) was AIed onto that.

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Woozle Hypertwin
Woozle Hypertwin
@woozle@toot.cat replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

@dalias You're probably right. Meh.

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Jonathan
Jonathan
@jmcrookston@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

@woozle

I lost it at "this has been going on for several blocks now"

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