A very deceptive deepfake of President Obama was posted in General Discussion this evening

[highplainsdem]

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220808654

by a DUer reluctant to delete it.

Even if someone likes what an AI puppet of Obama says, it shows incredible disrespect to him to post such a deepfake.

As it showed incredible disrespect for the YouTuber to create it.

This sort of crap doesn't belong in DU. Or anywhere. There should be criminal penalties for anyone creating AI deepfakes.

And there should be a DU alert specifically for AI deepfakes.

[Timewas]

1. Yes

I have seen that on You Tube.. Hate it

[highplainsdem]

5. I don't understand people NOT hating deepfakes like that.

[SheltieLover]

2. Thankfully, whatever slop it was has been removed.

I couldm't agree with you more!

Ty for alerting us!

[highplainsdem]

6. You're welcome, Sheltie! I don't know who alerted on it so it was removed - I couldn't decide which

category for alerts would fit it best - but I'm glad it's gone, though the link I posted in the OP before I knew it was gone still takes you to the deleted thread with all the replies, and the name of the YouTube channel for the jerk creating those deepfakes.

I very rarely alert on anyone. I prefer to try to make people understand when something they posted was a mistake.

It's been discouraging to see AI garbage making inroads here, from people posting "ChatGPT says" nonsense to AI slop being treated as worth posting. Liberals should have higher standards.

But I never thought I'd see anyone here defend posting a deepfake of Obama.

[SheltieLover]

7. I wish there were an alert for ai slop.

Very disappointing to see people posting slop. 😓

[alittlelark]

3. I clicked on it last night - the words were 'right'

For the first 2 mins or so I thought ‘finally !!’ Then it just started to feel wrong - by 3-4 mins in it started to make me feel almost queasy for no discernible reason. He was expressing all the ‘right’ sentiments, but it started to look cartoonish in some way.
I searched for any other links to it and could find none.

It was surreal because it was so ‘real’.

[highplainsdem]

4. The AI-using ethics-free puppeteer with that YouTube channel had already done three deepfake videos

of Obama by yesterday, and it was clear from the YouTube comments that they were deceiving a lot of people, which IMO was their intent, even though there was a disclaimer that avoided admitting the videos were AI but did admit Obama had not been involved. They claimed "fair use" and said the videos were done with respect and integrity. Which was BS, especially when they knew the deepfakes were deceiving people.