Thursday, March 28, 2024

‘Stay Woke Bitches’: Barack Obama Addresses Nation in Fake PSA Crafted by Jordan Peele (Watch)

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*Real footage from a Barack Obama address was cleverly manipulated by “Get Out” writer/director Jordan Peele to make it appear that the former president is giving us some much-needed words of wisdom in these Trumpian times.

In the fake PSA released Tuesday (April 17) from Peele and BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti, Obama appears to be giving a video address much like the ones during his presidency.

“We’re entering an era in which our enemies can make it look like anyone is saying anything at any point in time — even if they would never say those things,” Obama “says,” with the assistance of technical wizardry.

“So, for instance, they could have me say things like, I don’t know, [Black Panther’s] Killmonger was right. Or, Ben Carson is in the sunken place. Or, how ’bout this: Simply, President Trump is a total and complete dipsh*t.”

Peele is eventually revealed as the voice we hear as Obama. Digital manipulation was used to make it look like Obama was talking, underscoring the video’s message that folks should be careful about trusting information they find online.

That message ends with Obama/Peele saying, “Stay woke, bitches.”

Watch below:

Below, more details behind the technology that made this possible via Huffington Post:

According to BuzzFeed, the video was written by Peele and produced by BuzzFeed’s Jared Sosa with help from Peele’s company, Monkeypaw Productions. Peretti wanted the video to come to fruition because BuzzFeed has covered counterfeit news websites extensively.

“We’ve covered counterfeit news websites that say the pope endorsed Trump that look kinda like real news but because it’s text people have started to become more wary,” Peretti said. “And now we’re starting to see tech that allows people to put words into the mouths of public figures that look like they must be real because it’s video and video doesn’t lie!”

Obama’s digital manipulation was done using After Effects, a motion-graphics program, and Fakeapp, an artificial-intelligence video-editing program. Sosa digitally pasted Peele’s mouth onto Obama’s, then replaced the former president’s jawline with one that moved in conjunction with Peele’s speech patterns. Fakeapp was then used to make everything more seamless, an effort that took more than 56 hours of automatic processing, according to BuzzFeed.

“What I learned from this whole thing is that while it will still require a good deal of human intervention, this kind of thing is not only possible but going to get a lot better,” Sosa said.

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