You can’t confuse “cheap fakes” (which is just a dumb term for selective editing you don’t like) with “deepfakes” (an invented image, meaning a full-blown digital lie).
Last week @walterkirn and I outlined a role-play game made by the CIA commercial arm In-Q-Tel that described a supposed AI plot to fake a candidate’s dementia. WH spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre just played the exact MIND GAMES card we showed: https://www.racket.news/p/we-called-it-karine-jean-pierre-blames
We Called It: Karine Jean-Pierre Blames AI "Deepfakes" for Joe Biden's Real Infirmity
Last week, Racket showed an intelligence-crafted game blaming AI for suggesting "one of the candidates may have dementia." Yesterday, Biden spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre played that exact
As a Boston sports fan I’d just like to say, fuck Mike Felger.
https://youtu.be/-jBtMqI4pKs?si=F5IRGjD7YVL0fM4-
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"The Necklace" by Guy De Maupassant
Excerpt from America This Week 93: Walter and Matt discuss Guy De Maupassant's "The Necklace"
https://open.substack.com/pub/taibbi/p/the-necklace-by-guy-de-maupassant?r=5mz1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
What? By “a source” I meant the person who controlled the documents. I tried to get as many documents as I could, about anything. We all did. The publication and reporting was all done conventionally and by the book. The challenge with the Twitter Files was getting the material.
Lawyers operate under rules and can ask judges to help them with document production. A reporter getting information from a source who can change his mind any minute is a totally different dynamic. Very difficult situation and no matter what, I clearly did the best I could.
She knows nothing about reporting. The idea that I would see emails marked “flagged by FBI” and pivot to waste searches on Bernie Sanders is ludicrous. I knew I was in an unstable situation (I was right about that) and honed in on one story. It was the right move.