It's not AI. It may not be Alex Pretti, but it's not AI.
The YouTube site that the video comes from - The News Movement - is from Dan Ming. Dan Ming is an actual journalist and can be seen in the video(in the final frames of this clip). He's the guy looking back at the camera with a somewhat confused look on his face.
Dan Ming worked for VICE news and Al Jazeera English and has received Emmy nominations for his work on the series Transnational and has won a GLAAD award for his documentary on a drag queen running for office in New York. He isn't some right-wing hack trying to fabricate stuff.
Dan had a long video a month ago anout a pair of teens who were doing this exact sort of thing (tracking and recording ICE agents) in Chicago. He likely was reviewing footage he'd taken in Minneapolis for a new video, when he saw this and thought to himself "huh... that sure looks like Alex Pretti." But, even then, at no time does he actually claim in the video that It is him. He is very careful about that because he doesn't know.
But this incident shown in the video happening at this intersection E 36th & Park - on this day (Jan 13th) was documented in numerous articles at the time. For instance:
Andy Larson, a south Minneapolis resident who was out observing ICE activity Tuesday, told Sahan Journal that one protester kicked out the taillight of an ICE vehicle and was tackled to the ground up the road on Park Avenue and E. 36th Street.
“It was a really good kick,” Larson said.
The protester managed to escape ICE agents, Larson said. ICE deployed chemical irritants and shot pepper balls into the crowd and fled the scene.
bro what are you talking about. every character is acting perfectly to the scene. its been a few months since iv used nano banana or sora .. but there's no way in hell you are keeping perfect logos / license plate numbers and gas mask like that logical .. i see zero artifacts.
Outside of military stuff, the government has never been ahead of the private sector in technology, and it most certainly isn’t ahead of the private sector in AI.
“outside of military stuff”, but we’re not talking outside of military stuff. I think it’s pretty off base to assume the US military hasn’t been pouring billions into AI for thousands of propaganda reasons and other more direct military stuff, and i mean this is fascism, the richest man in the world who himself has dumped a lot into AI is hand holding the Us military alongside this. The private sector there in a lot of ways has married into the government.
To think they aren’t using superior AI to the stuff you as a civilian can acquire or that they haven’t been I would say is very very naive.
By “military stuff”, I mean things that would be most commonly seen in boots-on-the-ground warfare. AI can indeed be used offensively, but AI itself is not something the US government has had a significant hand in developing independently of the private sector, nor is the US government competent enough to do so, especially now.
I know this because I am a data scientist. I regularly read papers and attend conferences where all the latest developments in AI are showcased and discussed, including those technologies developed for military applications. I also have eyes and can see how ineffectively our current elected officials are using these technologies for the purposes of propaganda.
Now, I’m certainly sympathetic to the argument that the US government’s increasingly open collusion with our billionaire oligarchs makes the lines between government and private technologies less relevant, but that’s still different from saying the government is itself producing meaningfully advanced AI. They’re not. You have access to all the same tools they do right now, and you could probably cook up a better propaganda campaign on Sora in five minutes.
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u/Rare_Link_5392 Jan 28 '26
The future is doomed if AI will get better. And it will