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Re:Zelensky video deepfake by zionic on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @09:53AM (#30698828)
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-nonsensical title

-no comments

-all videos on account are unlisted

-you just found it

Hmmm. How did you “find” this?

Re:Zelensky video deepfake by yznovyak on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @10:17AM (#30699126)
> Hmmm. How did you “find” this?

To be clear: the video is not mine. I simply uploaded it to youtube as an unlisted video to support my point. This original video was posted on Feb 28th to one of telegram channels I'm subbed to. The channel is https://t.me/wildwildhack which is a channel for "wild wild hack" hackathon organized by the reface.ai guys.

Re:Zelensky video deepfake by BeefWellington on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @10:12AM (#30699085)
To add on:

- Largely inactive since 2019 until ~15 days ago.

- Ukrainian with ML background[1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20083793#20093381, Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210224044558/https://news.ycom...

Re:Zelensky video deepfake by yznovyak on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @10:22AM (#30699169)
> - Largely inactive since 2019 until ~15 days ago.

I'm a lurker, sorry for that.

> - Ukrainian with ML background[1]

Thanks. I did finish Yandex's school of data science (2015-2018). I've been to Moscow in 2018 for their graduation ceremony.

Edit: My remark about me visiting Moscow is to demonstrate that I did not harbor any anti-Russia sentiments.

Re:Zelensky video deepfake by BeefWellington on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @11:12AM (#30699768)
No need to apologize for being a lurker!

The explanation that you found it and uploaded it makes perfect sense and clarifies things for me anyway.

Similar to GP, I read your post as though that Youtube video was the initial source, rather than something you uploaded.

Re:Zelensky video deepfake by yznovyak on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @10:19AM (#30699137)
That's my old gmail account that I've since abandoned because I moved to [email protected] (my first name @ my last name). My google apps account (znovyak.com) doesn't have youtube enabled, so I uploaded this to youtube channel associated with my old (since high school) gmail.
Re:Zelensky video deepfake by kuschkufan on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @10:14AM (#30699100)
dude, the youtube channel name is the same as his profile here. maybe he just uploaded it, but got it on telegram or whatever. it's not about how he found/made it. but the quality compared to OP.
Re:Zelensky video deepfake by eagleal on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @10:12AM (#30699090)
Most communities and bot network coordinators these days organize through Telegram. There's ton of easily fake materials (propaganda stuff, staged fakes, deceptively out of context or material first claimed to be something then appearing on another channel as something else).

After the initial piloting fake information spreads like virus.