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Liqu1dSnake t1_jcuqtii wrote

If you read the article, or even the title, water reflecting the sky IS a reason why it looks blue, but it isn’t the only reason.

I suggest you look at a dictionary and see what “sole” means.

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otclogic t1_jcupgmk wrote

It needs a massive sample for it to sound convincing. There’s tons of audio deepfakes of Obama, Trump, Biden, and Ben Shapiro playing video games together. Between unserious performances by whoever is speaking their lines and the fact that even with hundreds or thousands of hours of publicly available dialogue it’s still difficult to get publicly available deepfake models to portray those people smoothly and convincingly.

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[deleted] OP t1_jcuny15 wrote

There’s a behind the scenes video, but what they did was they had an AI program watch tons of Nixon speeches to determine what his voice sounded like, had an actor deliver the speech, then had the bot change Nixon’s mouth movements (the visual they used was actually his resignation speech) and change the actor’s voice to Nixon’s.

It was done to raise awareness about deepfakes by creating what would have been a very memorable moment for the entire world that actually never happened.

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Lurker_IV t1_jcuiv3a wrote

This sounds like a different name for Rhabdomyolysis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhabdomyolysis

Rhabdomyolysis (also called rhabdo) is a condition in which damaged skeletal muscle breaks down rapidly.[6][4][5] Symptoms may include muscle pains, weakness, vomiting, and confusion.[3][4] There may be tea-colored urine or an irregular heartbeat.[3][5] Some of the muscle breakdown products, such as the protein myoglobin, are harmful to the kidneys and can cause acute kidney injury.[7][3]

The muscle damage is mostly caused by a crush injury, strenuous exercise, medications, or a

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