I need your help.

[rgulick@social.coop]

@randahl

Also, this is one of the standard AI voices often used in AI videos.

[jorgecandeias@mastodon.social]

@randahl Are you sure Youtube isn't in on it?

'Cause I'm absolutely not.

[gsymon@mstdn.social]

@randahl

Last few days there's a whole new style of quasi-identical Russian/Far-right bots here on Mastodon. This has been going on for ~1year, but this latest attack is quite intense. If you follow #EU / #Ukraine tags, you'll see them.

Clues =
• meaningless mixed letter name
• 0 to a few followers
• Lots of posts in a short time
• Many posts beginning / ending with ellipses (threads)
• Often posts are identical to those of other bots/accounts
• Seeing a lot in French language

[doktorzjivago@mastodonsweden.se]

@randahl Yes and her teeth keep change in shape as well

[knownasrose@mstdn.social]

@randahl Also, watch her mouth with the sound off. After a few seconds, it looks robotic.

Thanks for all you do. So appreciated.

[barbramon1@mas.to]

@randahl I am in the US, and am not sure how to report this. YouTube doesn't allow us to report content creators for misinformation. They can be reported for a number of other reasons. I reported as spam.
Interesting that some YouTube videos are labeled as AI or altered content, while many more are not.

[crow@privacysafe.social]

@randahl weird to imagine anyone wouldn’t instantly recognize this as #AIslop. There’s a disconnect between the mouth movements and the voice.

[steeph@mastodon.green]

@randahl And her hair is the same in some of the other video's I checked. Which is impossible for that kind of hair over time.

[jt_rebelo@ciberlandia.pt]

@gsymon just mention the posts in question with the NAFO or NAFOTakedown hashtags. The fellas will be on it ASAP and trying to find the admins/who owns the domain/server to put an end to the russian propaganda.

You're seeing a lot in French because the Municipal Elections were last weekend and this weekend, if I'm not mistaken. Putin's buddies need "mairies" now, before trying to reach higher government places.
@randahl

[teotwaki@mastodon.online]

@doktorzjivago @randahl What about her disappearing lips every other plosive?

[randahl@mastodon.social]

@Crow I often see thousands of comments on these channels where viewers clearly demonstrate they think everything is legit.

[hakona@im.alstadheim.no]

@doktorzjivago Yes! Clearly visible in the two stills in the top of this thread. *weird* @randahl

[nerb@techhub.social]

@randahl

I have hearing issues so I tend to watch lips to help.
That does not look right, the mouth movements while mostly correct do not look right. The C for instance in C-Span. Listening to that would tire me.

Almost as annoying to look at as sound that is slightly out of sync.

[cwicseolfor@zeroes.ca]

@randahl #alt4you Two stills of what looks like a brunette woman in a pink and white room, speaking with raised eyebrows and a hand up in a pincer gesture. However, the two photographs are totally identical to the pixel except around her lower face, chin, and mouth. Neither her forehead, hand, hair, or shoulders have moved at all. It is clearly generated imagery.

[kingtor@frontrange.co]

@Crow @randahl Yes, but this isn't just an AI problem. I've been working in sound for picture since way before AI joined the party and there has been a marked slide in the acceptance levels for lip sync in video editing software and common workflows. I can't even relax when I watch TV if I'm looking at the mouths. And so many Netflix viewers watch dubbed versions of foreign shows without even noticing it wasn't filmed in English. The dubbing has been happening since, oh I doubt the Jazz Singer was dubbed into foreign languages, but not long after that, and it's one of the many examples of technology making things worse in our business. We used to edit "deep fakes" with razor blades and open reel tape and I swear we did it better.

[janeggers@hessen.social]

@randahl The multi-detector "Search Whisperer" flags screenshots as likely made with Flux (which actually does not offer video generation). A commercial detector also fires. Googles Backstory tool detects traces of SynthID which means that this be AI-generated keyframes stitched together with a video generator. None of this is proof that it is truly AI, as other detectors fail to detect foul play.

[janeggers@hessen.social]

@randahl The most curious find by Google's Backstory tool was this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCyJPc928po - a Vietnamese clone of the video with an overvoice.

[everton137@social.vivaldi.net]

@randahl disinformation. *

Google is aligned with the Trump administration, as far as I know.

[anchr@snabelen.no]

@randahl
The lighting and shadows in the background (apparently by the sun through the window) is the same in multiple videos.

But, they could claim that the background is a green screen.

[randahl@mastodon.social]

@jorgecandeias I understand your scepticism, and I do not pretend to know all of YouTube's motives, but I do appreciate that YouTube have taken down several of the accounts I have reported. That is a good sign.