Kit Knightly – Off-Guardian June 27, 2024
The ad is simple. A bus is held up in traffic after hitting a fruit cart, a young female passenger looks out her window at a handsome young man in a convertible. She gets out of the bus, gets in the car, and the man drives her away like a chauffeur while she’s eating a candy bar.
The young woman is Audrey Hepburn.
This has massively significant implications on our perception of the world in which we live, in ways nobody really talks about. But we’ll come back to Audrey later.
It doesn’t always seem like it, but humans are innately trusting.
Whether an evolutionary development designed to make functioning as a social group easier, or a vestige of thousands of generations of religious thinking, deep down our automatic position is that most people – most of the time – are telling the truth.
This is a natural inclination that tyrants have understood – and taken advantage of – for centuries.
But however much trust we innately place in others, there’s something we all trust more – our own eyes.
We are visual creatures, and once somebody has seen something – or believes they have seen something – it is almost impossible to convince them they haven’t.
And, these days, would-be tyrants can take advantage of that too.
Unfortunately, the necessary and primal trust our brains have in our eyes lags behind the ability of technology to confound them.
Deep Faking is, as most of us know, a video editing trick that can seamlessly replace one face with another. It’s not especially difficult, or expensive. All you need is the replacee to have a passing superficial resemblance to the replacer, a good number of photos showing different facial positions and the right computer software.
4chan “shitposters” do it from the comfort of their own bedrooms for a laugh, replacing porn star faces with those of actresses, celebrities, politicians, and Nicolas Cage.
Simply put, by the very nature of what it is, deep fake technology must make every video showing any face to some degree suspect.
The potential for fakery doesn’t stop at video, faking audio is getting easier and easier every year. With enough speech samples, voice synthesizers and voice cloners can make anyone say anything. This technology is getting better all the time and can mimic intonation perfectly.
Artificial Intelligence in general can draw, in seconds, any image you care to describe. It can generate photo-realistic faces that could be used as “victims” and “mugshots”, or cast any fake drama with fake actors.
Free online tools can do all of the above passably already. Obviously, governments and mega-corporations would have access to more expensive advanced tools that would probably be near-impossible to detect.
Hollywood movies deploy CGI to bring dead actors back to life, add modern faces to old news footage, burn cities to the ground or make 60-year-olds look 20 again.
Let us return to Audrey Hepburn eating a candy bar and examine it afresh.
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Now, it could be argued this ad actually shows the limits of this tech, after all it has an uncanny valley quality and nobody who saw that ad ever thought for a single second it was really Audrey Hepburn.
Well, firstly, that advert is already eleven years old. It’s what a little candy commercial could do over a decade ago. The technology has improved since then.
Secondly, all of that information is contextual.
Back in 2013 when the commercial aired, your brain would have known it’s not supposed to believe what it’s seeing because you were watching a TV ad. Your brain would also have known what you were seeing was impossible, since Audrey Hepburn would have been 84 years old…if she hadn’t been already very, very dead.
Your analytical brain can filter when it has additional information and context. You see the strings when you know they are there.
But imagine it wasn’t Audrey Hepburn, imagine it wasn’t an ad.
Let’s say it is footage played on the news, and instead of a technicolor candy ad it’s a grainy cell phone video showing victim A of terrorist attack X. It’s CCTV footage showing politician B receiving bribe Y. It’s defendant C livestreaming into his trial for offense Z.
The face looks real, the background looks real, the voice sounds real…
…yet potentially none of it is real at all.
But how many people out there process this? How many of us have reset our brains to make “yes, but is the video real?” the first question we ask?
Still, the automatic reaction from most people when people claim “that’s fake” is to scoff without a second thought.
That is old-fashioned thinking.
None of the information posted above is shocking or new, and I’m not suggesting it is. The technology is widely known and some of it is over a decade old, it’s the addition to our mental meta that is lagging behind. Its use is not an automatic consideration yet and it should be.
Simply put – You can’t trust images or videos. Ever. It’s a lesson we all need to learn.
So, we know that fast-developing tools make highly convincing fake news or staged events not only possible but easy. For our final point I want to focus more on the repeated lesson of history people refuse to learn:
They. Already. Fake. Everything.
OK, not literally everything, but a lot. A huge amount. Much more than most people grasp.
It’s a minor example, but in this clip from CNN, two female reporters are pretending to be miles apart doing a satellite interview, when a bus going by in the background proves that they are in fact in the same parking lot, and aren’t separated by more than fifty feet.
A reminder of just how much of the media we consume every day is some type of unreality, one way or another.
You could say “reality”, as we understand it, is barely ever seen in the media. Magazine covers are photoshopped. Interviews are stage-managed. “Scandals” can be largely PR stunts. “Reality television” is full of paid actors in simulated conflict with one another. Every scenario a contrivance, every emotion a performance.
The internet is rife with weather reporters leaning into hurricane winds that aren’t there, or paddling canoes in “floods” six inches deep.
Watch this video, allegedly recorded in Egypt circa the Arab Spring:
What are they doing? They appear to be pretending to protest, then freezing to pose for photos, some with fake injuries. Obviously not real, but when presented with only the stills or the video would it ever have crossed your mind?
In Syria the West even faked an entire charity. The “White Helmets” were said to be an organic organization of Syrians dedicated to saving lives. They were nothing of the sort. They were a NATO-funded psy-op and many of their “rescue” videos were clearly staged. They even took part in the viral “mannequin challenge” (a bad PR move that).
“Nayirah”, the Kuwaiti nurse who testified to seeing “babies thrown out of incubators” before the first Gulf War never really existed, she was a part played by the Kuwaiti ambassador’s daughter.
In his book Bought Journalists, the late Udo Ulfkotte recounts being in Iraq during the war and watching journalists poor petrol on burnt out tanks and cars, miles from the frontline, so they could set them on fire and pretend to be reporting from a warzone.
Remember Rolling Stone’s infamous “A Rape on Campus” article? 9000 words detailing a gang rape that never happened.
Within days of Russia launching its “special military operation” in Ukraine, both mainstream media and social media were flooded with fake and misattributed videos selling made-up stories.
From the very moment of its inception, Covid was an avalanche of fakery both macro and micro.
When it kicked off in China, we were treated so absurdly fake pictures and videos of people supposedly keeling over in the streets from the disease.
The rash of people suffering from “lying on their back in the street wearing a facemask” had spread to Italy by March 2020, but then quickly disappeared, never to be heard from again.
At the height of the panic a Twitter user named TraceyZ claimed two nurses at Swansea Hospital had died of Covid and three more were in the ICU. The claim went viral before the hospital itself contradicted it.
Not only did the five sick nurses not exist, TraceyZ didn’t exist.
The account bearing that name was deleted soon afterwards.
Remember this video a passerby took of “cleaners” on the London underground pretending to clean.
Or this video from inside a Spanish hospital, where the two “doctors” in the foreground are kitted out like extras from Outbreak, while a bemused person in the background watches on in nothing but a T-shirt.
Recall the sheer number of people who committed to “political theater” by pretending to wear masks, like this guy:
The Covid examples go on forever, four years of them and counting.
And those are just the ones we know about, the ones we can prove.
The media landscape is saturated with pretend, and has been for decades.
The technology discussed above doesn’t mean they will start faking things, it means the faking they’ve been doing for years will be easier to do and harder to detect.
The technology exists. The motivation exists. The required levels of dishonesty and corruption more than exist. The lazy entitlement that ‘justifies’ a culture of pretend also exists.
We’re long past the point now where questioning everything you see and/or hear could ever be considered “paranoid”. It’s healthy, rational and even a prerequisite for maintaining your sanity.
We know they’ll fake anything, so we must be prepared to question everything.
This article covers how the establishment could create fake news stories. In the second part of this article we’ll be asking a bigger question: why.
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And a dozen years ago when Miles Mathis started telling everyone it was all faked, he was called a crackpot.
He may have jumped the gun on a few, but for the most part I find Miles pretty accurate.
Admit it — would you have even considered the Egypt protest to be fake?
“Is that most people – most of the time – are telling the truth”.
Not true. Most sheeple are lying most of the time. Most laughing is a defence mechanism due to insecurity.
The paragraph that follows the above quote.
“This is a natural inclination that tyrants have understood – and taken advantage of – for centuries.”
Tyrants are just better liars than the sheeple they seek to control, and hide their motives with charm, or fear.
As I’ve said on here many times, do not believe what you see or hear from anyone in the public sphere. Simply put, anyone who wants a place in the public eye (pun intended!), needs to have an act, a position, and style that’s somewhat unique. They need to bring something to the table that no one else is dishing up, so it’s an act. Actors are seeking specific reactions. Actors mostly work to directors. In our world, the directors are the deep state. All the performers that we see, are delivering their unique, or uniquish part, within the scope of the directors.
One should look for purpose and motive in everything we hear and see, but these days, we need to understand there are newish technologies at work.
Take Kate Middleton’s recent appearance. I am not convinced it was real, and the fake news is hinting at another appearance, but in between, we see another family image with Lazy Boy Wills and his two brats jumping in the air over what is probably a sand dune. Very easy to take an image of all four of them. There are timers, but of course, there’s going to be close protection officers present, so if Kate ain’t there, you can’t fake the image.
Why is Kate only appearing in large stage managed events? The image of Kate in the carriage didn’t look right, and the grouping of all four, detached from the other Royal parasites, was odd, when the narmal inclination is to group all your subjects, pun intended..
King Charlie Boy has cancer, is recovering treatment, but is out and about, and even has doctors tell him to slow down, and Kate can’t even make an impromptu appearance.
Same skepticism over war footage, when it’s all super degraded by the Nazi deep states, and I raise an eyebrow at this sites content. Usually we have the US Nazi regime labeled as communist, Biden and Harris are communists, and yesterday, many accusations directed at Assange, calling him a commie. I mean, make your fecking minds up, or is it all written by an AI bot?
The 1990s sit-com “Drop the Dead Donkey”, set in a News room, had a character who carried a soft toy around to place in sites of an atrocity, and he would put sad commentary over it. In the joke, he is being told off for using the same toy too many times. In other words, we always had to try to see through their fakery
“We know they’ll fake anything, so we must be prepared to question everything.” Critical thinking is a rarity, a thing of beauty and truth, a fresh handful of sunlight in the present darkness.
Yes, and here we have Nico and his fake monikers…
“…well said Nico….Nico is right….now you know…commie commie commie…they´re all in on it…”
Insufferable.
It gets more fake than that. The weather channel especially got to get in on that fake fire in Maui, along with cgi generated wars and fake battles, fake shootings are one of their specialties, plus more fake virus’s, fake vaccines, fake covid deaths, fake doctors, fake sports (along with their fake female athletes), fake government, fake elections, fake presidents, fake lunar landings, anything on the “history” channel, fake food, fake news, fake music, and on and on and on. Harder to detect now days? Nah. Just go along with it, knowing that you know 99.9% of everything is fake, phony,
Always highly informed… top drawer intellect… articulate… concise and a number of other things, all of them good; a pleasure to encounter this writer whenever it happens.
The author is right about how easily we are being duped and especially by those in authority who have duped the people to believe they are there to serve them and not their own interests or that of people up the proverbial food chain. Covid showed all of those who prefer to be vigilant and awake, all those fed up with the mass deceptions, fakery, and fearmongering who are ready for rebellion, that their elected representatives DO NOT REPRESENT THEIR INTERESTS, to protect them from anything, and that ALL OF THEM are traitors and sellouts to unelected plutocrats and banksters pulling their chains.
Never before in my long life have I seen such COWARDNESS and EVERY SINGLE INSTITUTION FAIL SO BADLY the people they were supposed to serve and protect.
NAMELY:
– Our legislatures and all of the worthless “elected” representatives. Even our elections are a farce;
– The government mandarins and bureaucrats who are essentially now “civil self servants” and always on the take, as if the practice is some kind of right of passage into the realm of the ruling, unaccountable ruling corporatocracy, and their job is to screw the people;
– The entire judicial system which has proven that the constitutional instruments and charters meant to protect us from all of the top-down abuses are nothing but ass wipe to them, to be flushed away all for the fake and cowardly rulings and coverups in favor of their masters.
– The medical professions and health-care agencies, and most of the people working in them who simply took the top-down money, pretended the ER’s were filled with the stricken, followed the top-down protocols designed not to save people from dying of the virus complications, but to kill them, and participated in injecting people coerced to take the experimental vaccines with all of their basic rights being cancelled including “informed consent”.
– Our namby-pamby, cowardly Church leaders, who closed their churches when they knew lockdowns were not necessary and then despite all of the evidence showing the vaccines were not necessary and a grave abuse of power, they said the people had a duty to take them
Lord Jesus, please give me proper eyes to see, ears to hear and an appropriate mind/heart to perceive! Known Satanist Anton La Vey LOVED the idea of a telLIEvision in every house! Satanic Disney portrayed this with “mirror mirror on the wall…” Think about where these modern black mirrors are placed in the average sheeple house! Think also about the psychology of looking “up” to something! Jesus LIVES!!!!!
More like ‘why you should never believe your Jews’.
Jews own all the mass/social media outlets, so they’re the one’s deceiving everyone with their bogus holocaust, 9/11, 7/7, sandy hook, & Oct 7 hamas psyops..
The Masters of Illusion control the programs, the filming, the broadcast signal, and the input to your brain. They have created a completely false reality in what you believe, like the moon landing:
https://odysee.com/@ARGONAUT:d/VID_20230104_080105_931:f
https://odysee.com/@psalm19:6/The-Lunar-Lander:b
Nothing up my sleeve,
except some really excitable photons.
(and excitable people)
Oh yes, those in the fakestream media are also major suckholes, sellouts, and parties to all of the crimes against humanity inflicted on us by the continuous disinformation and mass deceptions. Their work now is nothing more than perception management where reality and the truth are totally relative to the interests of the money power and moguls playing god.
Then we have all of the corporate moguls and the suited business class, most of whom like our legislators, judges, and anyone in the rich and ruling class were “exempt” from the vaccines. They also believe that a right to the facts concerning our interests is the preserve of the rich and the powerful giving them unfettered rights to deceive, coerce, and brainwash us with lies.
Although not politely put, I am not exaggerating. The ruling class is totally corrupt. It is one of institutionalized criminality and all of the institutions which have been created by the people and for the people have been taken over and corrupted by them. There is only one solution. Any procedure of gentle or gradual reform is doomed to fail as it is soon corrupted by that same criminal ruling class.
It is not that they fear that their powers over mass deception are being dissipated out of their control to those they deem opposed to their interests and plans. That is not the real reason they want impose strict censorship over us to suppress alleged “disinformation”. They are not concerned about what they deem as “hate speech” hurting the feelings of people they want to protect. What they are deathly afraid of, in all cases, is the truth leaking out, which is destroying their own disinformation and fakery. They are in opposition to the spread of factual information allowing people to make reasonable and rational decisions in their lives because in doing so their own powers of ruling by stealth and fear are becoming increasing more limited. They are even more afraid that if in their own lifetimes enough facts leak out as to their crimes against us they will become accountable to us. Their efforts to criminalize what our flake governments call “hate speech” and “disinformation” and their alleged right to propagate unhindered any fake narrative as the official truth reveals both their fear of the people and their totalitarian contempt for us.
Another nutjob on here named ‘sully’ imagining other independent posters are ‘Nico X’.
franz
miles mathis is a jew disinfo agent
Acknowledging the moon landing hoax is a limited hangout to protect the greater deception that the entire space program is fake as well as the concept of outer space itself as portrayed by NASA and Hollywood. They don’t even bother to give us high quality CGI pictures or video of fake globe earth, just poorly rendered artwork that looks like it was produced by 3rd graders. You would think with all the shekels they are stealing from the public, NASA could at least provide more convincing fakery .
This article explains something that has disturbed me for years, because I grew up in the last years in my country when lying was actually considered deeply sinful – and that means something one should NEVER do purposely – that is to say WHY – when the general population are now unscrupulous about lying in themselves – do they believe MSM with such thick-headed conviction?
Audrey Hepburn is the perfect choice for this meditation on deception – untalented and deeply average in looks, she is elevated in critical memory as some sort of supreme stellar Hollywood Beauty and Talent.
Nothing of the sort – totally rubbish in ‘My Fair Lady’, both her cockney and ‘posh’ accent were execrable, her singing voice was dubbed and Rex Hartison quite rightfully wanted Julie Andrews – genuinely attractive, got the accents just right, sang like a diva who could also act – in the rôle –
without nico x i wouldn’t know what’s really going on
This article explains something that has disturbed me for years, because I grew up in the last years in my country when lying was actually considered deeply sinful – and that means something one should NEVER do purposely; that is to say WHY – when the general population are now unscrupulous about lying in themselves – do they believe MSM with such thick-headed conviction?
Audrey Hepburn is the perfect choice for this meditation on deception – untalented and deeply average in looks, she is elevated in critical memory as some sort of supreme stellar Hollywood Beauty and Talent.
Nothing of the sort – totally rubbish in ‘My Fair Lady’, both her cockney and ‘posh’ accent were execrable, her singing voice was dubbed and Rex Hartison quite rightfully wanted Julie Andrews – genuinely attractive, got the accents just right, sang like a diva who could also act – in the rôle –
cui bono?
it hardly needs pointing out here but
Israel aka ‘LiesRUs
… the tribe of Professuinal Liars
hence their domination of advertising, law, politics, media…
its what they do
– Pertinent good article –
Nature is hard by its own discourse and this is just part of reality the timeline of God.
Within the timeline there is a place we will cease to exist that is a reality.
People understand they will cease to exist but how many truly accept it? I know the evangelist cannot. Oh they accept your cease of existence if you aren’t “saved” but they can’t accept their own. Some of them rave about the vatican one world religion in the end times but when I ask no buddhist peasant or hindu would accept it how can you claim the monopoly on God. They just keep going back to the bible proving my point they don’t have the monopoly on God they only think they do. That is a troubled human.
Why do the birds leave when Glastonbury is on.
Because humans believe their own b.s. and worse will believe someone else’s b.s. The people at Glastonbury will be the first to “save” the planet when they can’t even think of the local birds.
They want peace these people say but they’ll kick out the local birds to have the fleeting moment of a good time. The good time warriors.
Only a few examples of how screentime humans of this era behave.
Nico X, seriously bloke take the 12steps and join alcoholics anonymous A.A.
You got nothing.
Please excuse, my reference to Glastonbury is about the noise.
That looking into a screen is much the same it’s just noise.
Solitude is becoming a lost human agency by design and we see the results everywhere.
nICO x buT ThEy ArE AlL yUoUo (CaPs eRrOr)
@ jimmy kennedy —
Whether or not he is, there is still a controlled narrative going on. Both sides.
@ Guy Reid-Brow —
Audrey was pushed for the OTHER agenda: Her appeal to gay men was pretty well-known by 1960. She was good for the controllers even when outsider critics were annoyed by the fact she was always boyish.
In 1955 when she was working with Gary Cooper, Humphery Bogart, and other older men there was no doubt who her biggest fans were. The image was reinforced when she became Holly Golightly in BREAKFAST AT TIFFANYS, the original story having been penned by the outrageous Truman Capote.
And let’s not forget all those dead covid victims under tarps, until the wind blew up the corner of one of them, only to have a remarkably agile and modest ‘corpse’ reach over to cover themselves up once more. These parasites have no shame whatever.
Believing is seeing, so it is said.
“Why you should NEVER believe your eyes”
(or your lying nose)
Interesting:
“At a major tournament England head coach Gareth Southgate’s words are analysed, deconstructed and debated.
But Euro 2024 has brought a new dimension – AI-generated fake interviews with the England boss that are being viewed by millions on social media.
These fake clips purporting to show Southgate making crude remarks about his players have been called “offensive” by the Football Association.
The videos have been circulating on TikTok and Instagram.
They include derogatory comments about England’s Euro 2024 players as well as those who were not selected.
Comments on the social sites suggest the material, about players such as Phil Foden, Jordan Henderson, Jack Grealish and Marcus Rashford, had been believed by some viewers.
The videos are all made to look like Southgate is giving press conferences, but use an AI voice generator to overlay fake words and artificially move his mouth…”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cqqlvd3qy1lo
Elsewhere, the lack of any genuine left shows an unbalanced political field, as millions call for Anthony Gordon to replace Starmer as Labour leader…
Here´s some more fake news:
phoebe smith & esteban morales are not Nico.
Now you know…
specialy dont believe those who
have power over you !
@markie
It is truly incredible how extensive the fakery is. How long has total Jewish reality capture been a widespread norm? I can only speculate, as much of our received history is fake too. Potentially the Roman Judaisation of Europe was a key turning point. Perhaps it is far more ancient than that. Perhaps all of our history is fake and we will never know how we got to this point.
The issue is that we are the equivalent of kidnapped children, raised in a basement, never having had a view of the world outside the basement. All we can do is watch the shadows dance on Plato-stein’s cave wall.
maty = commie-christian
Markie–there is nothing that is certainly fake about the moon landings, but you will need to listen to both sides like I have
a lot of putintards on this site Rixon
@Pan
“We shall erase from the memory of men , all facts of previous centuries that are undesirable to us” — Protocols of Zion