Nord.pubWe spoke to the man making viral Lego-style AI videos for Iran
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Luminous5481 "Lawless Heathen" [they/them]When we push back - citing US officials who say the airman is now receiving treatment in Kuwait
yeah, sure. this supposed airman that nobody has seen, heard from, talked to, or even knows the name of, is resting in Kuwait. and to back that up, we have the word of hegseth and trump. two entirely trustworthy people who are known to have never lied about anything, ever.
Maybe it’s just me, but I think it’s incredibly stupid to have let the BBC have any way of connecting with me if I were this guy. I would not be the slightest bit surprised if he suddenly wakes up dead now… :/
I didn’t find the videos all that well done, the two I saw. They were better than previous attempts at propaganda for western audiences. I could do better.
They were AI slop and blatant propaganda but they were high quality trolling against a regime that only understands that childish shit.
No you can’t.
Certainly not with that kind of attitude.
The people in charge, from world leaders, to business, to nonprofits, are not the best people, and they’ve appointed and hired the wrong people up and down the line. We are much more capable than the people lording over us, and their contractors. Maybe not you per se idk, but collectively.
To assume the best people are in charge, is laughable, and an indictment to your own quality in understanding.
einfach_orangensaftTo everyone who thinks those are funni: U are not imune to propaganda and iran is still a nation with death penalty for beeing gay.
And do i dont defend was usa is doing, they actually on a path to becoming the christofash version of iran.
They both suck. Dont fall for propaganda.
Regardless of how bad the regime is, the usa is a lot worse and is the one aggressing the other. The usa is responsible of millions of death for decades. Call me back when iran kill as much. The usa is backing a genocide too.
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For decades the USA have been the Bad Guy in the “Larger Middle East” mostly for their complete lack of understanding how societies work. So many times. In every country except Israel. This is the ultimate fuck-up. I’m not a friend of the guns blazing approach to secure oil, but even that could’ve worked if they’d just put a little more effort into understanding the people they’re invading.
Cheesus, do I hope they get fucked over good. Not the soldiers of course but the USA itself.
And I fucking hate the Iran regime and all religious states. But the USA are making it all too easy for them to portray themselves as the good guys.
And why should they tell only facts in their videos if the leader of the biggest military of the world (by budget) is so obviously lying as soon as he opens his mouth.
The reason those religious regimes etc exist in the first place is that USA supported them in the beginning.
Yes. The story is not complex but looong. All the way back to Saudi Arabia, the founding of Israel. And several times the side the USA backed & trained & gave guns to, later turned against them.
Except for Iran that actually had democracy until USA undermined it and instated the Shah to get the oil.
That ended up causing a revolution, that replaced the Shah with a religious regime.
So thank you USA, I hope you enjoyed the few years of oil profits from Iran! /s
USA and the UK. MI6 are no saints
AFAIK UK weren’t that involved with Iran, they were with Egypt, but USA fucked UK over regarding Egypt, and made deals for themselves instead of helping UK.
MI6 were definitely not saints, their only redeeming quality was probably that they were less successful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_campaign_(World_War_I)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Soviet_invasion_of_Iran
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
They were pretty involved with Iran
The anglo soviet was UK and USSR. Fuck the yanks they messed up everywhere but they were not here this time.
Presumably they were committing war crimes elsewhere or plotting child rape organisations.
The Iranian rebellion was ultimately betrayed by the Islamic clergy. Without organizations such as the Mojahedeen-e Khalq, the revolution would not have happened. And as a thank you, the Iranian left got slaughtered after 1979.
And for the moment people of Iran were thinking it could be a liberation attempt;)
I also hope that the soldiers that go abroad to kill for money will not be fucked over, since they are basically good guys.
no soldier serving in the us military since trump took power can be considered “a good guy” anymore
Video for context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G9DNx7xIIc
Wow that’s… kinda fire. Ngl.
I’m not a big fan of the IRGC, but that’s a banger of a diss track.
Damn, that’s no exaggeration, I wasn’t prepared for the quality of that.
I’m going to have the hook “your government is run by pedophiles, they ordered you to die for Israel” stuck in my head for a while. Those are not words I ever expected would be catchy lyrics, but here we are.
yeah.. irans propaganda game is incredibly strong… doesnt help that they have such weak targets as well
I wonder if AI made the lyrics too. Some of it is - too good.
The lyrics are so good I’m leaning towards them being written by a real human and then just fed into AI
I kind of assume the same with the imagery too. It’s slop but I gotta admit that it’s quality slop
Some human effort went into this for sure. But I keep forgetting that everything AI produces is essentially stolen human effort.
The editing is tight, but when you look closer at some scenes you see typical AI bs.
US media: “We have a healthy and functional democracy”
Iran: “Your government is ran by pedophiles”
Well, it’s hardly surprising that such propaganda has been successful, especially since it contains more truth than most U.S. media outlets dare to publish these days.
It also takes a collective childhood memory and does something very edgy with it. That tickles our brains in a very funny way.
Is it propaganda when it’s 100% true? Is it called propaganda because it’s pro-foreign?
The most effective propaganda is either true, or has been repeated so long, loud, and often, people refuse to believe it’s a lie.
This is actually the first time I’ve seen that and damn, hit the nail right on the head.
Slopaganda is a gorgeous term. I hate it.
I’ve seen a few but not the rap “the secrets are leaking, the pressure is rising”
Anyone have a linkl? I searched DDG and no links, seems like it’s being suppressed in the US for some reason..
found this though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G9DNx7xIIc
i think you want that one: https://politicalhumor.substack.com/p/new-iran-lego-viral-video-trump-is
Wow..these fucking gold. Good on Iran for playing the propaganda game proper, love this.
Is it really propaganda if a majority is true?
L.O.S.E.R. was such a banger!
It’s the best propaganda I’ve ever seen
What, no “slop” comments?
ITA: “Slopaganda” isn’t strong enough
I mean the guy didn’t really make it. AI did. Or should I say the collective effort of many people’s work that the model was trained on did? I find there‘s something ironic about the content of the videos considering LLMs are the ultimate „fuck your consent“ tools. But I will say it‘s very effective.