“For over a decade, a Chinese woman known as “Zhemao” created a massive, fantastical, and largely fictional alternate history of late Medieval Russia on Chinese Wikipedia, writing millions of words about entirely made-up political figures, massive (and fake) silver mines, and pivotal battles that never actually happened. She even went so far as to concoct details about things like currency and eating utensils.”
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Posts Tagged → fake
Real or Fake?
Powerful machine-learning techniques (see “The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI”) are making it increasingly easy to manipulate or generate realistic video and audio, and to impersonate anyone you want with amazing accuracy.
[via Technology Review]
Robert Rushkin: the artist
Robert Rushkin: my new (non-existent) favourite artist. Video by The Builders Club…
#HyperRealCG
Last February, artists David OReilly and Kim Laughton created a blog called #HyperRealCG, in which they post banal photographs and then claim that they’re CG. Pretty much every tech blog falled for it.
Literal Atari Game Covers
Re-constructed realities
Matthew Albanese constructs small-scale meticulously detailed models using various materials and objects to create emotive landscapes. The real-fake aestethic that results is strangely attractive…
How to build a fake Google Street View car
Segnalazioni: L’iniziativa culturale dell’anno
Imperdibile, dal sito di Tommaso Labranca: Adelphake!