This is a real “AI” ad from the US government about the end of the mandatory use of the auto start-stop.

This is from the official Whitehouse Instagram.

Only things I can see that gives it away that the video is generated is the red car’s brake lights being on while accelerating. The obvious stereotypes of bule haired lesbians vs the blonde.

Also they have no insignias on the cars but that’s definitely a Prius and idk what the red car is, the red car might not exist in real life.

Spoting generated videos is going to get harder. However if it’s obvious propaganda from the state then you should be suspicious.

It’s impressive for generated video even though it is stupid as fuck. I won’t get too in the weeds about why this is stupid as the point of the post is more about the use of AI in state sponsored propaganda.

Just to get it out of the way, here is why this is a stupid policy:

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  • GrapheneOSRuinedMyPixel@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    I drive a newish Chinese car and it does not reset from factory. The button has a persistent state and I have to go through 3 menus on the touch screen to toogle it. Drives me mad as I want to disable the start-stop very rarely in humid conditions and remembering to turn it back on is a chore.

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      Interesting, I’m most familiar with VAG cars so this is news for me. Thanks for telling me something new.

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        yeah, it was the first time for me as well. I thought the re-enabling on each start was mandated by law (as well as stuff like ESP and emergency collision avoidance), but this car lets me disable anything, forever (well, it glitches sometimes and resets settings to factory, thankfully all the things I want disabled are displayed on screen)