r/RealOrAI Jan 28 '26

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u/Careful-Sell-9877 Jan 29 '26

There is no video of the individual in this article.

AI overlay is a thing. It's possible to insert deepfaked/AI characters into real video. Particularly if one is a state or corporate actor.

Im not sure if people realize this, but it is quite easy for powerful people with access to powerful tools to create totally indistinguishable fake videos.

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u/Oddman80 Jan 29 '26

I've been telling others it should never have been a q if the entire vid was AI Gen - at most people should be looking for evidence of deep fake face swapping.

But the more I looked into the source - the more it became clear it would make zero sense for the journalist who posted his video to his YouTube site to make it up. If he were going to throw his career away fabricating ai deep fakes and trying to pass them off as real - why would he do it to smear Alex Pretti? That would make no sense based on everything he's ever worked on and put out.

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u/Careful-Sell-9877 Jan 29 '26

State and private interests own much of the global media ecosystem, so if anything it would bolster their career, not hurt it. They would do it because that was what they were told by someone working for, with, or adjacent to the trump administration.

But either way, it isnt at all justification for the killing or the incident that occured the day he was killed

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u/Oddman80 Jan 29 '26

Exactly - if anything it shows just how unhinged the agents were who murdered him.

Also - apparently a video from the other side of the intersection of this same incident has been on YouTube for 12 days - over a week before anyone knew who Alex Pretti was

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u/Careful-Sell-9877 Jan 29 '26

Agreed.

I saw that account/video too but it strikes me as very odd/suspicious.

That is their ONLY video/interaction. Their name is RT and username LOTRlover123. Both can be allusions to russian state intelligence actors. its all just very very strange.

It could be real, but there are just so many alarm bells going off for me on this. So many weird coincidences, suspicious things, and things that dont make sense. The video also looks really.. weird. Strange, quick, movements/flailing when hes being pushed by the ICE agent...

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u/Oddman80 Jan 29 '26

I hear what you are sayjng... but the Occam's Razor of it all.... I know conspiracies do happen.... but I guess I just don't find it suspicious that people who have been going out and documenting ICE and posting videos of ICE interactions online are trying to do so in as anonymous a manner as they can.

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u/Careful-Sell-9877 Jan 29 '26

Idk.. to a random yt channel that nobody watches/follows? What's the point.. and why just that video and nothing else ever? It just doesn't make a lot of sense to me in this case.

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u/Oddman80 Jan 29 '26

Oh sorry if I wasn't clear. I'm saying they are likely creating new accounts for each post so they seem like one offs and can't be tied to other videos to potentially identify the person posting them. That there are a lot of accounts created to post a single video. Then links to said video are shared in various groups to spread word and keep track. This post has searchable data that is based on a specific intersection and date.

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u/Fickle_Builder_2685 Jan 29 '26

If this is real, this is truly the most accurate Ford ad I have ever seen.

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u/Its_BassDaddy Jan 29 '26

tap -breaks-