Posted on 07/22/2020 9:57:02 AM PDT by rickmichaels
President Richard Nixon had a speech prepared in case the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing ended in tragedy. Thankfully, it was never broadcast. But now, thanks to a very convincing deepfake video lasting some seven minutes, we can see what might have been.
MIT’s Center for Advanced Virtuality launched their project, titled In the Event of Moon Disaster, on Monday to show the dangers of deepfake videos currently spreading all over the Internet. The project took about half a year to complete. It was previously shown at a physical art installation in the fall of 2019, as part of a recreation of a 1960s-era living room, but this is the first time it has been open to the wider public.
Deepfake videos rely on artificial intelligence to make a person’s facial movements and voice sound convincing — sometimes indistinguishable from the real person. In this case Nixon’s speech, which can be found in full at the National Archives, was read aloud by an actor.
“Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace,” Nixon says in the speech, written by speechwriter William Safire, referring to astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.
Thankfully, of course, all astronauts did in fact return safe and sound.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...
And no Hillary and HULU are producing a show on her alternate history/reality. Probably not going to be much of an audience for that.
The written speech has been known about for years. They just used it to show off their computer skills.
“The written speech has been known about for years.”
Thank you! I said exactly that in my original post!
Collins would have made it back...the author makes it sound like all 3 astronauts would have perished.
No, there was a script. A transcript, by definition, is a record of what was said. Since it was never said, it's not a transcript.
Words have meanings.
Yes, words DO have meanings and it is obvious that you do not know the definition of the word, “transcript.”:
If someone has a thought OR says something out loud then the person who had the thought or someone else heard what was said then writes that thought or spoken word down then at that point it immediately becomes a “transcript.”
Sheesh!
So by your definition, absolutely everything that is written is a transcript, since someone thought it and wrote it down. Novels, poems, screenplays, newspaper articles, billboards, this post. Everything written is a transcript. Is that your position?
Your original post was... very confusing. I still have no idea who you were calling sick or why, but at least now qe have established that when you said the video was known for years and that you had seen the transcript, that you in fact meant that there was no video at all?
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