Obvious "AI" slop trying to garner sympathy for fascist paramilitary invaders. Do not fall for generated propaganda. Learn to tell the difference.

https://cdn.social.linux.pizza/system/media_attachments/files/116/075/982/500/271/877/original/213cc236d9cd87ac.mp4

Ways to tell that this video is fake:

  1. NYPD patches with gibberish
  2. Fast shots with unnatural movements
  3. Eye glasses that melt off with the face mask
  4. ICE wears military fatigues, with camo and extra ammo to shoot protesters with, they don't have uniforms.
  5. Eloquent fascists that are being respectful to the NYPD
  6. Strange things in the background
  7. The NYPD are doing their jobs

Fact check: Are ICE fakes trying to drown out real videos?

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76 Comments

Banana@sh.itjust.works · 98 pts · 185d (5 replies)

Also if it just says "ICE" on their uniforms, its almost definitely AI. The real ones say "POLICE ICE"

CubitOom@infosec.pub · 27 pts · 185d (2 replies)

I don't think I've seen it say ICE on any of the military fatigues I've seen

homes@piefed.world · 11 pts · 184d

Some of them do. It’s just that most of them don’t.

Banana@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 184d

Yeah it often doesn't say it at all

orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 184d (1 reply)

Pohleece-eece

Banana@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 184d

Tbh I think that every time I see it

Ghostie@lemmy.zip · 77 pts · 184d (4 replies)
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CubitOom@infosec.pub · 30 pts · 184d (3 replies)

Deckard was a replicant, and more importantly, a cop.

ACAB

Ghostie@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 184d (2 replies)
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CubitOom@infosec.pub · 14 pts · 184d (1 reply)

They programmed him to believe he was retired, maybe also a way to not pay him, and it didn't take much to convince him.

Ghostie@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 184d
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ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 57 pts · 185d (8 replies)

How does this generate sympathy for ICE? This feels more like propaganda for NYPD to make them look like they care. I would love to see some AI videos showing ICE admitting they are wrong and calling for their own arrest.

CubitOom@infosec.pub · 26 pts · 185d (5 replies)

It's not real.

The nice AI ICE agents are being so respectful to the NYPD. Those poor Federal Agents are being doxed because the NYPD took off their facemask and revealed their identity.

This can be used as justification for a federal invasion.

ACAB.

RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 184d (4 replies)

Ok, but it's clearly created as nypd propaganda, not ICE, who look weak.

CubitOom@infosec.pub · 8 pts · 184d (3 replies)

Maybe, but then why do the ai ice agents look so sorry, and speak so respectfully?

I think it was made by someone that supports ICE and hates NY as a way to show their friends and family what's "really" happening in these blue cities.

RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 184d (2 replies)

I took it to imply the cops are the bosses standing up to bullies, who break once you kick one in the balls.

CubitOom@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 184d (1 reply)

Sure, but they aren't and there is tons of proof of that.

Either way, this was intended as Memetic warfare

RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 184d

Oh yeah. Implies, not demonstrates truthfully.

Kirk@startrek.website · 10 pts · 184d

If you're someone who already believes that New York City is a violent hell hole and ICE is cleaning it up, then videos like this that get mindlessly scrolled past can reinforce that belief and are unlikely to be critically analyzed.

Schmoo@startrek.website · 1 pts · 184d
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Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 184d (5 replies)

Holy shit! That whole video is fake / AI slop? I need to step up my game detecting that. That's crazy!

I_Jedi@lemmy.today · 26 pts · 184d (2 replies)

Some of the tips for reality checking dreams can also be used for AI. Examples. So, you'll want to check that the various machines in the video are doing what they should, the objects in mirrors are located/positioned where they should be, the text and spoken words are comprehensible when they should be, and the objects still respect collision (third party pushing finger through hand test).

dimjim@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 184d

This guy lucid dreams

jason@discuss.online · 2 pts · 184d

Ha. I did a reality check when I couldn't make sense of the text.

p0358@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 184d

Yeah, holy fuck. I only clearly saw it when the mask was taken off, that was actually ridiculous

victorz@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 184d

You really do, none of these people are acting like humans.

Hazzard@lemmy.zip · 42 pts · 184d (1 reply)

I'll add some other good questions to ask yourself to catch AI:

  1. Who's holding this camera? How are they getting this angle?
  2. How is the camera work in the situation? AI tends to be smooth and even movements, like it's on a track and stabilized, unlike real footage in hectic scenarios.

The best part is, these are somewhat unlikely to be fixed in the near future, as footage looking "professional" is desirable for the AI companies, unlike gibberish text and questionable physics.

victorz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 184d

Very good questions to think about, yeah!

Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca · 39 pts · 184d (2 replies)

Notice how these videos also always include angry black cops yelling at surprisingly complacent white Ice guys for a little extra pandering woke warm fuzzies.

Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 184d (1 reply)

Also notice how it's acting yelling, not the genuine rage they are trying to portray.

victorz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 184d

acting yelling

Always extraordinarily gymnastic jaws and wide mouths and exposed teeth with these genAI videos. People don't talk like that so I don't know why AI generates them like that.

Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 28 pts · 185d (7 replies)

Lol cops dont protect and serve

CubitOom@infosec.pub · 14 pts · 185d (4 replies)

See reason 7 on why this is fake

Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 5 pts · 184d (1 reply)

Yeah dont get me wrong, I'd love to see state and federal gangs taking each other out. But thats not happening. Cops and ICE are the same kind of people.

RaoulDuke85@piefed.social · 5 pts · 184d

polICE.

orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 184d (1 reply)

We know it's fake. You don't have to keep repeating it.

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 184d

Yeah what is going on with this dude

queermunist@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 185d

They protect and serve capital.

massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 4 pts · 184d

to project and swerve

GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 184d (2 replies)

Ah, yes, the showdown at the 42eeet station.

Jesusaurus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 184d (1 reply)

And Sotreé Street

jason@discuss.online · 3 pts · 184d

Sotreé Seet*

davel@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 184d (1 reply)

I’ve seen deepfakes of people giving talks on YouTube, specifically Richard Feynman, Michael Hudson, and John Mearsheimer. They’re getting quite difficult to identify, mimicking these people’s voice, intonation, and body language.

It’s to the point where media productions need to be PGP signed for me to trust the source.

Whack-a-mole: US academic fights to purge his AI deepfakes

As deepfake videos of Mr John Mearsheimer multiplied across YouTube, the American academic rushed to have them taken down, embarking on a gruelling fight that laid bare the challenges of combatting AI-driven impersonation.

The international relations scholar spent months pressing the Google-owned platform to remove hundreds of deepfake, an uphill battle that stands as a cautionary tale for professionals vulnerable to disinformation and identity theft in the age of AI.

In recent months, Mr Mearsheimer’s office at the University of Chicago identified 43 YouTube channels pushing AI fabrications using his likeness, some depicted him making contentious remarks about heated geopolitical rivalries.

One fabricated clip, which also surfaced on TikTok, purported to show the academic commenting on Japan’s strained relations with China after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi expressed support for Taiwan in November 2025.

Another lifelike AI clip, featuring a Mandarin voiceover aimed at a Chinese audience, purported to show Mr Mearsheimer claiming that American credibility and influence were weakening in Asia as Beijing surged ahead.

“This is a terribly disturbing situation, as these videos are fake, and they are designed to give viewers the sense that they are real,” Mearsheimer told AFP.

“It undermines the notion of an open and honest discourse, which we need so much and which YouTube is supposed to facilitate.”

surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 184d

I mean...

How hard would it be to get some video of Charlie Kirk supporting leftist talking points. Let's do it. Fuck em.

Kirk@startrek.website · 13 pts · 184d (2 replies)

"Sotreé Seet" is a real place in New York I am pretty sure

Also not surprised that all but one of the belligerent NYPD are non white...

CubitOom@infosec.pub · 8 pts · 184d (1 reply)
Kirk@startrek.website · 5 pts · 184d

Thorough analysis, sad it had to be done.

hemmes@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 184d

The last clip showing an ICE agent being taken away with an NYPD-like patch on his ICE uniform. ICE uniforms don’t have local precinct's patches.

Plus same gibberish on the patch, the police truck in the background and the NYPD officers.

Edit: Screenshot with markups

caboose2006@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 184d

Man, I wish this wasn't AI slop.

scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org · 11 pts · 184d (1 reply)

That got me 🤦‍♂️…for a second I thought NYPD went based🫠😅

harmbugler@piefed.social · 1 pts · 184d

It was the best of videos, it was the worst of videos.

sleepmode@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 184d (1 reply)

Had the opposite effect on me.

CubitOom@infosec.pub · 9 pts · 184d

Yeah, I wish it was real. But know it is not. We are not the intended audience and generated videos are getting harder to spot.

HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 184d

Good skill to have in any case. The amount of slop being vomited up from the depths of the digital bowels of whatever computing has become is disheartening.

quick_snail@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 184d (3 replies)

Reddit is not a reputable source

victorz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 184d

It's just a source for the video though, right?

CubitOom@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 184d (1 reply)

Please elaborate

paequ2@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 184d

Ah, yes, filming at the Sotreé Seet station.

I wish this was real. :/

Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 182d

I wish cops would do that lol they could rebrand themselves heros and protectors

Delilah@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 184d

Fascist paramilitary invaders insurgents

FTFY

Sephtis@lemmy.world · -59 pts · 184d (29 replies)

"Facist paramilitary invaders" you mean the people protecting the country from literal invaders who come to the us illegally?

CubitOom@infosec.pub · 26 pts · 184d (28 replies)

No, I mean fascists in a paramilitary loyal to the regime that are invading our cities with unchecked federal power. They are abducting US Citizens, violating the constitution, and throwing anyone not white enough into concentration camps.

Sephtis@lemmy.world · -29 pts · 184d (27 replies)
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ricecake@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 184d (12 replies)

Pro tip: "illegal" isn't a description of a person. Most of the people being targeted haven't committed a crime in any sense of the word. Entering the country legally and then having your visa revoked isn't a crime. Most people in the country without visas entered legally. It's why you see ice targeting citizenship exams and places where people go to renew their documents: it's easier to fill your quota if you revoke the visa of someone following the rules. They're not against illegal immigration, they're just against immigration by brown people.

Second, you don't know what a concentration camp is. What you described is a concentration camp and you just prefer the newspeak. They are being used for the detainment of large numbers of people who haven't been convicted of a crime, purportedly of a single demographic and predominantly from one ethnic group. Thats what a concentration camp is.

Finally, why on earth would I respect them or you? Fuck you for bringing the Holocaust into this. It's vastly more insulting to forget the lessons they died for than it is to draw a comparison to their killers.

The world would be a better place if the Germans had killed Hitler at the first hint of despotism, not sat around just because he was fairly elected.

Sephtis@lemmy.world · -16 pts · 184d (11 replies)
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ricecake@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 184d (10 replies)

No, it's not a crime. The law is exceptionally clear: it's a violation of the terms of the visa, not a crime.
If it were a crime they would be entitled to an individual trial by jury. So if you think it's a crime, then ice is flagrantly violating their constitutional rights to a trial.

I don't care that you don't know what a concentration camp is. That doesn't change what they are.
Comparison to a Nazi death camp only serves to make "open air cages without blankets, medicine or adequate hygiene" sound better by comparison.

fascist because that's not what we are

I don't think everyone who disagrees with me a fascist, but that doesn't mean they don't exist, nor does it mean you're not a fascist either. Try reading what a fascist is, as opposed to thinking about how the word makes you feel.

what you're seeing now isn't similar in any way, Trump has followed every law

Read a book.

Speaking about execution, he would've executed you if he was the fascist dictator that you think he is

Wow. Fuck you with your death threats. I hope you get the Nuremberg special. Do you think Hitler was executing people for dissent right out the gate? Or did he build up to it?

Sephtis@lemmy.world · -8 pts · 184d (9 replies)
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ricecake@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 184d

... What do you think happened at Nuremberg that the Nuremberg special would be a bad thing? It was a trial.
When this all goes down I hope asshats like you get a fair fucking trial and your names are written in the history books as fucking assholes.

"Oh well, the law says that technically we can pen people up in chain link fenced enclosures without bedding, so that means that they deserve it. And that's okay even without a trial, but because the cop though you looked too brown, because I'm okay with immigration arrests based on ethnicity. I'm also unwilling to address the contradiction of 'crime gets a trial, but these criminals shouldn't' because of definitely not racist reasons. " - this is why you're a fascist.
Remember, the SS was just enforcing the law to deal with a problematic population and people who wanted to "trans the kids".

You backed down from visa overstay being something we should think about how we handle to "deserves being locked in an open air cage" in like... Zero time whatsoever.

What side is the side of tolerance and peace now?

Sure as shit ain't the one defending shooting mothers in the face and locking children in cages.

you insulted me multiple times

You noticed? I'm shocked. I was so subtle. Maybe I was distracted by your talk of my execution.

CubitOom@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 184d

We are not peaceful. When our freedoms have been stripped you will find the mistakes you have made.

CubitOom@infosec.pub · 15 pts · 184d (13 replies)

I have no respect for you. Everything you say is wrong. There is no need to continue this discussion as everything you say is in bad faith.

Sephtis@lemmy.world · -28 pts · 184d (12 replies)
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CubitOom@infosec.pub · 15 pts · 184d (11 replies)

Fascist troll is your new user tag.

Grimy@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 184d (1 reply)

It's a 4 day old account. It won't be active for long I'm guessing.

CubitOom@infosec.pub · 8 pts · 184d

Good point. However I've decided recently it's better to add a user tag to a troll or agitator instead of blocking them so I can check on them later and see what their methods are.

Sephtis@lemmy.world · -15 pts · 184d (8 replies)
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CubitOom@infosec.pub · 9 pts · 184d

Keep respecting the fascists that are violating our laws then.