The Defense Department was forced on Monday to deny the U.S. had struck Iran’s main petroleum export facility after President Donald Trump posted a fake but very realistic AI-generated video showing a purported attack by American forces.
The video, posted to the president’s Truth Social account, appears to show oil storage tanks and refineries erupting in flames from the perspective of someone filming from inside a helicopter above the carnage, with an accompanying message describing the scene as “Kharg Island being blown to smithereens” and signed as “President DJT.”
But a U.S. official said no such attack had taken place, with Kharg Island not being among the locations targeted overnight in what has been the first exchange of fire between American and Iranian forces in weeks.
29 Comments
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 95 pts · 1d
> "Very realistic"
> Looks like a trailer for a low-rent FPS on the PS4
Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 1d
Well yeah, but the Trump target audience is the people who fall for Medicare scams and fake Facebook profiles of hot Ukrainian women ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 1d
sad Nigerian prince noises
Hupf@feddit.org · 7 pts · 1d
https://xkcd.com/1777/
Garbagio@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 1d
Lest we forget, most of these people fell for fucking medbeds.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 9h
i mean they fell for Trump
cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 1d
It looks like the thumbnail for a mobile game trying to rip off a trailer for a low-rent FPS on PS4.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 22h
It looks like the Indian Ocean section from the last Captain America film, which is to say it looks like a Command & Conquer cutscene.
njm1314@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 1d
1000% chance Trump thought it was real.
Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 23h
I'd love it if the commanders in charge are just giving him these slop videos to placate him every time he demands they do some war crime.
IronBird@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 20h
american commanders have, with few exceptions, never had any issue ordering/carrying war crimes
Fandangalo@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1d
Pretty sure we gloated about calling it “Department of War” whenever ago. Given we’re in one, why shy away now? #ManufacturedConsent
brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1d
Trump (or whatever account manager posted this) is just trolling, for attention.
It turns out the whole world is terrible at "don't feed the trolls."
chaogomu@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1d
Natalie is the whoever. She has control over Trump's social media account, and has posted under his name, including replying to world leaders and issuing orders via tweet.
But Trump also has access to that account, and posts slop as well. He likely auto prompts whatever slop machine is built into truth social.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 1d
If you haven't seen the movie War Games, please do. Pirate it if you have to.
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 1d
This is more of a Dr. Strangelove situation.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 1d
We watched War Games in high school, I had to look this one up. It's got great reviews: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 1d
Yes, War Games is about the dangers of automating everything (a relatively lighthearted precursor to Terminator), but Dr. Strangelove is what happens when literally crazy people are in charge.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1d
I'll give it a go. Thanks for the recommendation.
Unique_Emerald_Sol_I@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 20h
Obligatory: "GENTLEMEN! You can't fight here! This is a war room!"
Tiresia@slrpnk.net · -5 pts · 1d
Yeah, crazy people. Neurotypicals would never act like that. No siree. Now where did I leave my gun, I've got to defend my country by strafing some civilians from a helicopter. It would be unpatriotic not to.
Eldritch@piefed.world · 9 pts · 1d
Even if you've never seen it, you've likely seen bits. Slim Pickens riding a nuke to detonation. Peter Sellers is good in almost everything he was in. And Kubrick, anything Kubrick is worth watching at least once. Full Metal Jacket, the shining, clockwork orange, 2001.
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1d
Paths of Glory, quiet and devastating.
IncogCyberSpaceUser@piefed.social · 3 pts · 23h
What year was is released? I'm seeing several movies with war games in the title.
sushiatnight@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 23h
They're probably talking about WarGames (1983) with Matthew Broderick.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 23h
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 7 pts · 1d
That’s what happens when you elect a shit-flinging primate as your head of state.
Professorozone@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
I wasn't sure the actual video would look as fake as the picture in the post, so I watched it. Yeah, not realistic at all. What a stupid fucktard.
minorkeys@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 20h
He only cares what things look like, not what actually is.