https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https://lookaside.fbsbx...
As an example, I can screenshot your comment and have AI edit it to have you say “I really enjoy misleading people on the internet for money”, post it, and then say “I took this screenshot before they deleted it.”
But also just look at the bottom-left of the image as is mentioned elsewhere in this comment thread: they didn't even bother to photoshop the entire image in their "debunk".
It would be interesting to know where the "corrected" deepfake originated.
screenshot for posterity: https://i.postimg.cc/vTCTyYZ1/Screenshot.png
Also worth noting at the time of this comment the lovely fact-checking website Axios is also still blatantly lying. Absolutely crazy this is all getting swept under the rug.
[0] https://openai.com/research/verify/
e: Okay, now I feel stupid for even bothering to do that. Look below her name and you'll see the leftovers of the old flag.
edit 2: Retracted. https://www.oregonjournalismproject.org/editors-note-october...
https://x.com/kgallella/status/2112332869461045733
https://x.com/Honest_Bender/status/2112301833708519659
Of course it doesn't conclusively prove that the flag was definitely right side up, but you'd really have to bend over backwards to explain why Oregon Journalism Project's "debunking" is watermarked but the counter-debunkings aren't.
And now that you’ve said that I’ve retried the same image 5 times and gotten AI 3 times and Not AI twice.
Something tells me that tools is about as reliable as Pangram.
Oh wait, she is Somali and all the rabid racists right wing trolls latched on to it. Now I am supposed to be concerned about the fake edit. I'm not.
This keeps happening because it works. But why does it work? Why isn't there blowback?
This has always been the case.
However, the more interesting thing going on is that we have never had to reckon with this problem anywhere near as much as we do now, since the barrier to creating fakes has been reduced from "skilled, motivated software user" to "all five billion humans who can write".
Edit: I think this comment is neutral enough to stand even under the new information that this might have been a cries-wolf situation, but I am acknowledging the fact.
Simply provide the new information, rather than snarkily implying that the parent is some kind of asshole. Save that for the normal internet.
It's pretty obvious the OP is a thinly veiled attack at whoever believed the "lie", dressed up as a question. The only saving grace is that the wording was so ambiguous that regardless of whether it was the debunking or counter-debunking that was correct, the comment would still be applicable.
edit: the story was retracted so the "people manipulated with lies" are the people who believed oregon journalism project?
But it is also ridiculous that the people predisposed to the other side (and who only made a big deal out of the original clip in the first place because they are racist misogynists) will hold up this relatively insignificant lie as some sort of an outrage while pulling the lever for the likes of Trump who lies as easily as he breathes.
Do you get so upset about the flag when it's used as napkins, plates, thongs, or toilet paper?
"The U.S. Flag Code (4 U.S.C. § 8(a)) states that the flag 'should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.'"
Treating institutional or policy disagreements as equivalent to "extreme danger to life or property" is an insane stretch of the meaning of those words. But in the post-modern world every word means whatever the person thinks it means, so it's not surprising to see people able to reconcile that in their minds.
I'm really curious to get your take on how that makes me a racist misogynist though.
It is a really dumb virtue-signaling protest thing. In fact, it has nothing to do with the actual "distress signal" that it is meant to be.
> America is very much in distress
But you don't invert the flag when your nation is in distress. You invert the flag when your vessel is in distress. Inverted flag is a 9-1-1 call to all who can see it. It indicates immediate and extreme danger to life, limb, or property.
Furthermore, it is not up to us dumb citizens to determine when our entire nation is in distress. Honestly, our nation is bigger than you or me, and she can fend for herself on her own merits, without us telling her how she should feel. If "all America is in distress" then who will come and save her, huh? We are sovereign and that means we take care of our own messes, and solve our own problems!
Let's leave the inverted flag for its true meaning, which is individual or vessel-wide distress. Anything else is just posturing and performative slacktivism.
> Furthermore, it is not up to us dumb citizens to determine when our entire nation is in distress. Honestly, our nation is bigger than you or me, and she can fend for herself on her own merits, without us telling her how she should feel. If "all America is in distress" then who will come and save her, huh? We are sovereign and that means we take care of our own messes, and solve our own problems!
Nonsensical.
> Let's leave the inverted flag for its true meaning, which is individual or vessel-wide distress. Anything else is just posturing and performative slacktivism.
Running for office is slacktivism now? You gotta try harder to justify your fake outrage, this is just lazy.
My mom has a little American flag pin, and she's taken to wearing it inverted on purpose. At least one friend has tried to rotate it right-side up for her, and she had to explain what she's doing with it. I respectfully disagree. My father faithfully flew our flag on every prescribed day, very respectfully, and Dad, (unlike Mom) taught me a lot of respect for authority that was wasted on me in youth, but is beginning to make sense as I age and accumulate more wisdom.
So no, it's not "patriotic" to fly an inverted American flag. It's arrogant. It takes the idea that "our nation is in distress" and leaves it to the judgement of the individual who hoists the flag, rather than our leadership or someone in authority. That's not for us to judge. That's the arrogance.
It's foolish to abuse our national symbol like that. It's disrespectful. It's like calling 9-1-1 to order a pizza. It's not something that patriots do. Patriots fly the flag with respect, and according to the regulations. There are regulations for flying and displaying the American flag.
I've seen a guy at church with a big American flag shirt. It's got eagles and woo woo on it but it's substantially an image of a big American flag, but on his shirt. That's disrespectful. I am sure that he considers himself a patriot, and a conservative, but that is not how Americans should be displaying the flag, as a garment, as wrapping ourselves in something, and certainly not inverting it.
Now if the American flag is flown, inverted, outside an official's residence, such as one of the Supreme Court Justices, perhaps that should be taken with some gravitas. Unfortunately, that very Justice denied that he authorized that display, and apparently his wife did it without his input. So we are kinda back at the arrogance and judgementalism that individual citizens believe our nation is in distress, and therefore, they stretch symbolism to its breaking-point, in order to make a public statement. It's wrong.
I encourage you to try and dial 9-1-1 to order your next pizza, and see how the dispatcher treats you. And now imagine that some veteran comes home from deployment and sees your asinine "symbolism" in your front yard. Perhaps you might care to spit in her face, or give her a slap while you're at it?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335863
You should probably not post racist garbage if you want to pretend otherwise.