We spoke to the man making viral Lego-style AI videos for Iran (www.bbc.com)
from cyrano@piefed.social to world@lemmy.world on 12 Apr 05:32
https://piefed.social/c/world/p/1976434/we-spoke-to-the-man-making-viral-lego-style-ai-videos-for-iran

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/1044171

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cyrano@piefed.social on 12 Apr 05:32 next collapse

Video for context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G9DNx7xIIc

A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip on 12 Apr 07:36 next collapse

You said you like losers, well look at your team

I wonder if AI made the lyrics too. Some of it is - too good.

NotSteve_@lemmy.ca on 12 Apr 17:32 collapse

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

andrewrgross@slrpnk.net on 12 Apr 07:37 next collapse

Wow that’s… kinda fire. Ngl.

I’m not a big fan of the IRGC, but that’s a banger of a diss track.

fiat_lux@lemmy.world on 12 Apr 13:58 collapse

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.

ajikeshi@lemmy.world on 12 Apr 18:44 collapse

yeah… irans propaganda game is incredibly strong… doesnt help that they have such weak targets as well

geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml on 12 Apr 14:29 collapse

US media: “We have a healthy and functional democracy”

Iran: “Your government is ran by pedophiles”

DandomRude@piefed.social on 12 Apr 06:09 next collapse

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.

CosmoNova@lemmy.world on 12 Apr 07:55 collapse

It also takes a collective childhood memory and does something very edgy with it. That tickles our brains in a very funny way.

brap@lemmy.world on 12 Apr 07:15 next collapse

This is actually the first time I’ve seen that and damn, hit the nail right on the head.

A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip on 12 Apr 07:32 next collapse

The overriding message of these videos is that Iran is resisting what it sees as an almighty global oppressor: the United States.

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.

When we push back - citing US officials who say the airman is now receiving treatment in Kuwait - he claims: “Only 13% of what Mr Trump says is based on facts.”

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.

Jankatarch@lemmy.world on 12 Apr 07:35 next collapse

The reason those religious regimes etc exist in the first place is that USA supported them in the beginning.

A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip on 12 Apr 07:40 next collapse

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.

Buffalox@lemmy.world on 12 Apr 08:20 next collapse

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

verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr on 12 Apr 09:16 collapse

USA and the UK. MI6 are no saints

Buffalox@lemmy.world on 12 Apr 09:24 collapse

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.

scibra122@piefed.social on 12 Apr 14:32 collapse

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

Squizzy@lemmy.world on 12 Apr 14:41 collapse

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.

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world on 12 Apr 16:08 collapse

In '41? We were sitting at home and selling EVERYBODY weapons. Staunchly refusing to get into the war. Again. For the second time ever. Right up until Dec, 8.

Squizzy@lemmy.world on 12 Apr 19:18 collapse

Yeah a nation of amoral opportunists with a chip on their shoulder.

belastend@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 12 Apr 15:51 collapse

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.

Magnum@infosec.pub on 12 Apr 17:04 collapse

I also hope that the soldiers that go abroad to kill for money will not be fucked over, since they are basically good guys.

ajikeshi@lemmy.world on 12 Apr 18:41 collapse

no soldier serving in the us military since trump took power can be considered “a good guy” anymore

CosmoNova@lemmy.world on 12 Apr 07:59 next collapse

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.

venusaur@lemmy.world on 12 Apr 08:44 next collapse

What, no “slop” comments?

SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works on 12 Apr 17:47 collapse

ITA: “Slopaganda” isn’t strong enough

MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca on 12 Apr 17:53 next collapse

L.O.S.E.R. was such a banger!

Arachnidbrilliant@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 12 Apr 18:09 collapse

It’s the best propaganda I’ve ever seen

EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml on 12 Apr 18:27 next collapse

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: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G9DNx7xIIc

ajikeshi@lemmy.world on 12 Apr 18:40 collapse

i think you want that one: …substack.com/…/new-iran-lego-viral-video-trump-i…

EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml on 12 Apr 19:00 collapse

Wow…these fucking gold. Good on Iran for playing the propaganda game proper, love this.

Witchfire@lemmy.world on 12 Apr 18:45 collapse

Slopaganda is a gorgeous term. I hate it.