[yznovyak]

I've seen a deep fake with Putin "surrendering" on 28th of February: https://youtu.be/ZbudZw1LlHg I guess the video itself was made even earlier than that.

The video is not excellent, but the audio is pretty spot on, if you ask me.

Edit: re-worded the first sentence.

[zionic]

-258 views

-nonsensical title

-no comments

-all videos on account are unlisted

-you just found it

Hmmm. How did you “find” this?

[yznovyak]

> Hmmm. How did you “find” this?

To be clear: the video is not mine. I simply uploaded it to youtube as an unlisted video to support my point. This original video was posted on Feb 28th to one of telegram channels I'm subbed to. The channel is https://t.me/wildwildhack which is a channel for "wild wild hack" hackathon organized by the reface.ai guys.

[BeefWellington]

To add on:

- Largely inactive since 2019 until ~15 days ago.

- Ukrainian with ML background[1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20083793#20093381, Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210224044558/https://news.ycom...

[yznovyak]

> - Largely inactive since 2019 until ~15 days ago.

I'm a lurker, sorry for that.

> - Ukrainian with ML background[1]

Thanks. I did finish Yandex's school of data science (2015-2018). I've been to Moscow in 2018 for their graduation ceremony.

Edit: My remark about me visiting Moscow is to demonstrate that I did not harbor any anti-Russia sentiments.

[BeefWellington]

No need to apologize for being a lurker!

The explanation that you found it and uploaded it makes perfect sense and clarifies things for me anyway.

Similar to GP, I read your post as though that Youtube video was the initial source, rather than something you uploaded.

[yznovyak]

That's my old gmail account that I've since abandoned because I moved to [e-mail] (my first name @ my last name). My google apps account (znovyak.com) doesn't have youtube enabled, so I uploaded this to youtube channel associated with my old (since high school) gmail.

[kuschkufan]

dude, the youtube channel name is the same as his profile here. maybe he just uploaded it, but got it on telegram or whatever. it's not about how he found/made it. but the quality compared to OP.

[eagleal]

Most communities and bot network coordinators these days organize through Telegram. There's ton of easily fake materials (propaganda stuff, staged fakes, deceptively out of context or material first claimed to be something then appearing on another channel as something else).

After the initial piloting fake information spreads like virus.

[yznovyak]

Give it a couple of years and the tech will spread A LOT.

[Cthulhu_]

The tech is already good enough for anyone to make a convincing deepfake, I think, and especially state actors - or people with deep enough wallets - can perfect it. I mean some of the memes of e.g. Obama saying something he never did are convincing enough.

[gnulinux]

The Tom Cruise ones going around a while ago were indistinguishable from reality for me. Granted I'm not intimately familiar with Tom Cruise, just watched some of his movies, but I could see believing them if I didn't know they're deep fake.

[yznovyak]

I think right now only a single-digit number of people in the world can produce a convincing fake. And while they could be working for the government, I don't think they do.