Fact check: Video of the Prime Minister has been edited

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/prime-minister-rishi-sunak-asda-stella-government-b2580602.html

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  1. Article contents:

    **The video appears to be real but the audio has been swapped out for a likely AI-generated voice of Sir Keir Starmer.**

    A video has circulated on social media which appears to show Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer calling his predecessor Rishi Sunak an “absolute sausage”.

    The video showed Sir Keir saying: “Rishi said he shopped in the Asda, this was a lie! He also said he often drank pint cans of Stella whilst watching Buffy The Vampire Slayer on Sky Television, this was also a lie.”

    He added: “He was not your Prime Minister, he was an absolute sausage!”

    **Evaluation**

    This video has what would appear to be AI-generated audio and lip-sync technology layered on top of a real video. It is clearly intended as satire.

    The video was posted by an account which says it posts “memes, edits, short lipsync parody videos”.

    **The facts**

    Sir Keir’s tie, the rest of his outfit and the background that he was speaking in front of in the video all match a press conference that the Prime Minister held on July 6.

    The body language in the video, especially Sir Keir’s hand gestures, matches a particular part of that press conference.

    During this press conference, Sir Keir never uttered the words in the online video.

    During the section of the press conference where the body language matches the edited video, Sir Keir was speaking about how the mindset of Government had changed.

    “It’s a mindset of service, of country first, party second,” Sir Keir said during that section.

    **Links**

    https://x.com/Stevo_Stonko/status/1812739575371964699

    https://x.com/Stevo_Stonko

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2uHRh84bSM

  2. It’s genuinely concerning that an article has been written on this. There surely has to be a limit to how stupid people can actually be?

  3. It is concerning because the majority of people are so fucking stupid they just believe what they want to believe even when presented with facts that it is false.

    there’s a video on therewasanattempt of trump which claims he was sleeping, despite the clear evidence he was praying the vast majority commenters are just dismissing that because it’s what they want to believe.

    it’s mind boggling, scary, these dumb cunts vote!

    this ai stuff is new too, it’s just going to get worse

    if you read this and felt the need to downvote, ask yourself why. 🤦‍♂️

  4. “drank pints of stella while watching buffy” needed fact checking?

  5. I can forsee a very heavy handed ban on “AI” voices soon.

  6. I think stuff like this is so obviously fake and a parody that it’s not really concerning. No different really to sketch/comedy shows doing the same type of videos with impersonators doing voice overs

    But there definitely needs to be some sort of crackdown on making videos like this when the intention is actually to deceive or defame. Problem is making laws about that is so difficult because how do you draw the line?

  7. I expected it to be worse, all things considered.

    I figured we’d see more AI fudgery throughout the election, but it seems Labour were so far ahead no one thought to bother.

    Now the US election, that’ll have some corkers, I bet.

  8. Rishi found Angel more relatable with the evil law firm so yes, clearly fake.

  9. I want a fact check on whether or not Rishi was an absolute sausage or not.

  10. Next you’ll be telling me Keir and Farage didn’t actually stream Minecraft together

  11. Next they’ll tell me that the video of Nigel Farage griefing Rishi Sunaks house in Minecraft is fake…

  13. As soon as I read the word ‘sausage’ and ‘Stella’ I knew it was going to be Steve Stonko

  14. > Evaluation
    > This video has what would appear to be AI-generated audio and lip-sync technology layered on top of a real video. It is clearly intended as satire.

    Maybe it is time to bring a law in that impersonating or misrepresenting someone that is not a parody a criminal offence? That way, this is not a problem with a.i.

  15. The internet is now mostly either bots or misinformation (such as people faking events for fame on tiktok) so why is anyone even bothering to correct this stuff?

    The war over this is already lost.

  16. Cassette Boy is going to have to release disclaimers on every video

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