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On March 12, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave his first press conference since the U.S. and Israel first attacked Iran. Some social media users doubted the authenticity of the video address, and led them to question whether Netanyahu was still alive.
In the image, Netanyahu is pointing with both hands, and social media users said his right hand appears to have six fingers.
But upon closer look at the video, Netanyahu’s hands looked normal. A trick of light likely made part of his palm appear to be an extra finger.
Gonna use this one at the bank. "It might initially look like I owe you guys $100.000, but upon closer look you will realise that is merely a trick of the light.
He gestured with his hands a lot and no irregularities appeared.
No irregularities appeared, which is why people observed irregularities.
His right hand (viewers left) does weird stuff and has artifacts the other hand doesn’t a couple of times. From 5:28 in the briefing: 
A video of Netanyahu’s press conference doesn’t prove he is dead. We rate this claim Pants on Fire!
They must hire people directly from reddit to write for them. This is the most basic bad-faith smuglord trick in the book. The claim isn’t that the video proves he’s dead, the claim is it looks like he has an extra finger, which it does.
Anyway you can also just watch the press briefing itself, if you want to harm yourself for some reason - youtube
The disappearing teeth are a better example of an apparent irregularity IMO.
From about 1:24 of the YT video
That is weird
This kind of graphical error has existed for over a decade by bad deinterlacing, not from AI. Sometimes video is recorded or stored in a way where the pixels from 2 frames are interweaved together. This used to be used frequently in high motion scenes in movies. Motion requires more video bit rate, interlacing reduces the bitrate required. On old CRT televisions, interlacing was not visible.
Netanyahu is waving his hands around in the video. The boomer film crew did the video production wrong and it smashed 2 frames together.
Example, Image 1 shows the interlaced video. Image 2 shows the deinterlacing with blending tool. Image 3 is a non-interlaced video.
Yeah, it’s just funny the “debunkers” aren’t acknowledging what’s going on.
I am sorry to say it, but you are staring at a shittily compressed video that crunched frames together. That is all this is.
edit: I want to make it clear as well that I do hope I am wrong and he was pasted. Turned into rancid, chunky salsa. So if y’all turn out to be right, good on ya! :)
I am not saying it’s anything other than that. I don’t know what is going on, but I do know that the video has some weird artifacts, which could be anything - probably just compression. However the “fact check” isn’t then to say “actually there is no weird digital artifacts going on”, because that’s just denying reality, which is why I’ve put this in slop. It’s funny.
Devil’s advocate: any cell phone can take a better quality video than this. The only reason it’s so compressed was an attempt to obfuscate AI artifacts.
When video is uploaded to or streamed through sites like youtube it gets reprocessed and recompressed, often with dynamic bitrates and other shit that can make images unstable.
I watched multiple high-res videos where he had 6 fingers within the first minute.
Moreover, while he was moving his hands - the 6 fingers appeared at a point where he had briefly stopped moving them.
I dunno these don’t look like any compression artifacts I’ve ever seen, maybe newer compression algorithms legit work like this and introduce different kinds of artifacts than before, I admit I haven’t been keeping up with this stuff.
What I’m used to seeing in compression artifacts is small features in the video (i.e. fingers, teeth) get mushed together with bordering features and weird pixels popping up around them, I’ve never seen a compression algorithm hallucinate extra fingers or remove teeth.
hexbears can entertain little a delusion as a treat.I don’t know what’s going on, I just find it funny how there’s clearly some weird artifacts in the video, but all of these articles are denying they’re there. They could just have gone “yeah it was an error in the mainframe of the IPs serverhub during the transmission of the bitrate to the externalised GPU” and it would have been less weird than this.
Respectfully, delusion is holding a belief independent of the evidence.
Which happens to be you right now.
This is absolutely not AI. The video is a 37-minute continuous cut of him talking in front of a green screen. There are a bunch of weird compression artifacts and whatnot, but it never jumps between two videos. Currently, Seedance 2 is the SOTA of video generation models, at it can only create 15 seconds of video per prompt. If it were used, you’d see a hundred little cuts and jumps that just don’t appear.
Have you not been paying attention to the half-an-hour AI-generated Yanis Varoufakis videos?
That’s just what happens when you try to record Yanis
I’m not aware of those, but there’s no possibility that they are single clips that aren’t stitched together. There is not a single product on market that can generate over 20 seconds of video without stitching. I’ve looked at one of those videos, and you can see how his body jumps very abruptly every so often, which you don’t see here.
But are the jumpiness and the difficulty in stitching the same thing?
Because he jumps often. And the jumps are not so abrupt so as to be two seperate videos put side by side - unless they are using AI to interpolate between the videos.
I’m going to go against the grain: The video is AI, but it is because Netanyahu has 6 fingers in real life and he uses AI to cover it up whenever he’s on video.
So the aspect here that keeps the line blurry is that YT has been reprocessing videos through AI, meaning it’s possible these AI artifacts are coming from that.
Yes. Absolutely.
All the people saying we are delusional for calling it AI are just ignoring all of the clear evidence of AI here.
Delusion is to ignore evidence, and those who are arguing against the idea that this video has AI involved it are themselves being delusional.
That being said, exactly as you’ve pointed out, YouTube auto-compresses videos with AI without creators permission. So that’s what could be going on. But the fact-checkers here are being a bit weird denying the 6 fingers thing.
Yes people need to understand that even the videos YOU upload could have AI artifacts in it because of the AI post processing YouTube is doing.
His hand is normal and you’re being like the people claiming they can see reptilians blinking in TV recordings.
His hand doesn’t look normal in the thumbnail, in the picture in the article or in the screengrab I’ve provided. You’re being like the people who deny what’s observable because your favourite news anchor hasn’t confirmed it yet.
In your analogy, we’d be claiming he has 6 fingers on each hand in real life because of what we saw in the videos (plural).
I posted this already in the newsmega when someone posted that exact picture from the thumbnail. I hadn’t heard literally anything about this when I wrote this:
This is one of those old lady / young lady type optical illusions: You’re just looking at it wrong.
The bottom “finger” is not a finger. It’s the palm of his hand. The shadow of this sixth finger is actually from his wrist. Makes much more sense in terms of proportionality and perspective of hand to fingers that way as well.
The other picture looks like motion blurriness / a ghosting artifact. Someone replied to me saying basically this in the newsmega.
You don’t need to trust the deboonkerinos at politifact, just examine it critically without trying to see what you wish was true.
I think he has 6 fingers and Israel has been using AI technology for decades to make him look normal
Quick someone get Inigo Montoya
You don’t need to trust the deboonkerinos at politifact, just examine it critically without trying to see what you wish was true.
Im getting really sick of repeating myself here. If you’re gonna talk down to me, at least make sure you’re condescending about what my stance is.
I read all your comments here now and I get your point I think. I still do not agree that this is an especially stupid article, except for the typical annoying debunking style.
I don’t see any artifacts in the thumbnail, that to me looks like an optical illusion. The blurriness in the other pic is an artifact, but there’s nothing weird about it, that has existed since the advent of photography, and, more importantly, I still only see five blurry fingers there, not six.
So the article seems fine to me on that front, they do not need to give you an explanation other than “if you look closely there not six fingers”. That’s exactly what it looks like to me. One does not need to acknowledge or explain any digital artifacts to come to that conclusion.
Alright, guess we gotta agree to disagree. The video is full of different digital artifacts, so I don’t know what to say.
what if he always had 6 fingers
I’m going to hold your hand when I say this…
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Yeah it really sucks he was the one to coin that term.
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
HexReplyBot if you are not careful there will soon be rumours circulating about your death. As in I will kill you. With missiles.
just block it
This is more fun
