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by araes 684 days ago
Huh. Thought politics was dead with VASA-1 [1], EMO [2], and Animate / Outfit anyone [3], so we could clothe people in anything, animate them any way we want, put them anywhere, and have them say anything to the public. "Thoughts and prayers victims..."

However, this really nails that pretty dead itself. Wonder if I can:

- Sit at home in pajamas.

- Change my face to Sec. of Def. Lloyd Austin.

- Put myself in a nice suit from TV

- Call the White House with autotune voice pretending to be going in for surgery yet again because of life threatening complications

- Send the entire military into conniptions (maybe mention some dangerous news I need to warn them about before the emergency rush surgery starts)

Edit: This [4] might be an Animate / Outfit anyone image... It's difficult to tell. Even with huge amounts of experience, the quality has become too elevated, too quick to check 1000's of depressing murder images for fakes because it might be a BS heart string story. All stories on the WWW are now, "that might be fake, unless I can personally check." Al-arabiya upvoted casinos and lotteries for muslims recently. [5] "they all might be fake."

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/

[2] https://humanaigc.github.io/emote-portrait-alive/

[3] https://humanaigc.github.io/animate-anyone/

[4] https://www.reuters.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fcloudfront-...

[5] https://english.alarabiya.net/News/gulf/2024/07/29/uae-grant...