Jul 222020
A few years ago, the speech that was written for Nixon in the event that Apollo 11 failed surfaced. Obviously, Apollo 11 didn’t fail, so Nixon never had to deliver it. But thanks to the dubious miracle of deepfakes, now we can watch an episode from an alternate history. The audio is also computer generated (such as mentioned HERE), as opposed to read by an impersonator; somewhat counter-intuitively, the audio – at least to me – seems less convincing than the video, as there are numerous little discontinuities. The deep faked speech begins at about 4:35.
Insert now-expected warnings about how history, news and the justice system are about to be turned into muddled hot messes.