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FarPoint

(14,470 posts)
Thu Dec 18, 2025, 09:57 PM Thursday

Trump LOSES Control In CHAOTIC National Address : Robert De Niro /IS A DEEP AI FAKE!

Okay folks...this was on YouTube.... I fell for this with joy but come to find out it is all AI FAKE...

I am a victum....we all could be a victim....please report AI fake to You Tube....

I feel like I need a shower now.....

See...I believed this....


I Robert De Niro is so keenly articulate! He describes this menace and his speech with perfection...

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Trump LOSES Control In CHAOTIC National Address : Robert De Niro /IS A DEEP AI FAKE! (Original Post) FarPoint Thursday OP
This message was self-deleted by its author SheltieLover Thursday #1
If a MAGA actually listened to ths video clip.... FarPoint Thursday #2
This message was self-deleted by its author SheltieLover Thursday #3
We are at a very scary place right now Bayard Thursday #4
It's a deepfake. See reply 9. highplainsdem 5 hrs ago #10
This message was self-deleted by its author Uncle Joe Yesterday #5
It's a deepfake, Uncle Joe. See reply 9. highplainsdem 5 hrs ago #11
This is a gem. Should be shared everywhere. LuckyLib Yesterday #6
I bookmarked for the purpose of sharing... FarPoint Yesterday #7
You might want to reconsider. Close reading of the creator, voice niyad Yesterday #8
Thanks for alerting people to this. But since the deepfake is still here, I posted a long explanation in reply 9. highplainsdem 5 hrs ago #13
I thought so bucolic_frolic 4 hrs ago #26
Don't share it. It's an AI deepfake, as I explain in reply 9. highplainsdem 5 hrs ago #12
FarPoint, that is not only a fake, but the YouTuber ADMITS it's fake. Please see the disclaimers in highplainsdem 5 hrs ago #9
Oh for Chrissake! FarPoint 5 hrs ago #16
I'm so sorry the AI companies have made this kind of fraud not only possible, but easy. It's one of highplainsdem 5 hrs ago #20
I hate this, too! SheltieLover 5 hrs ago #21
I've added a reply/update about this thread and that YouTube channel to my Community Help thread on deepfakes. highplainsdem 5 hrs ago #14
Just noticed the video now has an "Altered or synthetic content" label on it that wasn't on it earlier, but highplainsdem 5 hrs ago #15
OMG... FarPoint 5 hrs ago #17
That label wasn't there earlier. The YouTuber most likely saw responses - mine or others - identifying highplainsdem 5 hrs ago #18
As a victim.... FarPoint 5 hrs ago #19
It should be reported. Unfortunately, YouTube actively encourages their users to use AI tools. So you highplainsdem 4 hrs ago #23
I am just going to stick with the regulars like FarPoint 4 hrs ago #24
That's safest. And there's actually an app now to block you from seeing internet content after 2023, highplainsdem 4 hrs ago #27
YouTube shouldn't allow deepfakes like this at all. Intractable 4 hrs ago #22
I agree. But since it can be hard to identify deepfakes, I wouldn't want alerts or posts being hidden, as with highplainsdem 4 hrs ago #25
Ummm. It's obvious Farpoint doesn't care. Intractable 3 hrs ago #28
I didn't see it, and I've noticed those labels before. And other deepfakes of famous people have appeared highplainsdem 3 hrs ago #29
I see. So you wish to cause more confusion to point out the confusion. Intractable 3 hrs ago #30
I'm not trying to cause confusion. I'm explaining that I didn't see any synthetic-content label there highplainsdem 3 hrs ago #31
Look at the thread overall to see the confusion you cause. Intractable 3 hrs ago #32
And yet you post in it. niyad 3 hrs ago #36
No, it did not when I first saw it on youtube. The alert was added later, niyad 3 hrs ago #33
Thank you. highplainsdem 3 hrs ago #34
Precisely! SheltieLover 3 hrs ago #35
Thanks! highplainsdem 2 hrs ago #37
Yw. Facts were clearly stated above. SheltieLover 2 hrs ago #38

Response to FarPoint (Original post)

FarPoint

(14,470 posts)
2. If a MAGA actually listened to ths video clip....
Thu Dec 18, 2025, 10:00 PM
Thursday

actually listen....they may begin to wake up.... So well explained...

Response to FarPoint (Reply #2)

Bayard

(28,320 posts)
4. We are at a very scary place right now
Thu Dec 18, 2025, 10:19 PM
Thursday

I'm glad De Niro has a platform to speak truth from.

Response to FarPoint (Original post)

niyad

(129,306 posts)
8. You might want to reconsider. Close reading of the creator, voice
Fri Dec 19, 2025, 07:46 AM
Yesterday

of hollywood, indicates it is ai-generated.

highplainsdem

(59,535 posts)
13. Thanks for alerting people to this. But since the deepfake is still here, I posted a long explanation in reply 9.
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 11:15 AM
5 hrs ago

highplainsdem

(59,535 posts)
9. FarPoint, that is not only a fake, but the YouTuber ADMITS it's fake. Please see the disclaimers in
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 11:00 AM
5 hrs ago

both the description of that particular video

⚠️ Disclaimer: This is a fan-made channel and is not affiliated with Robert De Niro, his production companies, or any organizations he is associated with. All content is inspired by his publicly available interviews, speeches, public statements, and creative work for educational and informational purposes only.


and in the info about the channel, which you can find at

https://youtube.com/@VoiceOf-Hollywood

when you click on "...more" above the Subscribe button. The channel description has a longer disclaimer:

⚠️ Disclaimer: This is a fan-made channel and is not affiliated with Robert De Niro, his production companies, or any organizations he is associated with. All content is inspired by his publicly available interviews, speeches, public statements, and creative work for educational and informational purposes only.

We use visual lip-syncing and narrated voiceovers to pair clear explanations with on-screen footage solely to enhance understanding and viewer engagement.

Our mission is to highlight Robert De Niro’s publicly expressed views—making his insights on film, society, politics, and contemporary issues more accessible to a wider audience.

We present his viewpoints respectfully and accurately, without any intent to mislead, impersonate, or imply personal involvement.


That's BS, of course, since their intent was to mislead and impersonate. They know from comments their deepfakes are tricking people, as this one tricked you and others here. They shouldn't be creating these videos at all - they rip off De Niro, treat him as a puppet - but at the very least, they should have clearly labeled all the videos on their channel as AI.

And although the channel names are different, this could very well be the same AI user who generated deepfakes of Obama and Jimmy Kimmel that fooled DUers last month.

See my Community Help thread, OP and replies, about those fakes

https://democraticunderground.com/125629423

and see my reply 2 in the thread that had the Obama deepfake

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220808654#post2

for the similar-sounding disclaimer with those deepfakes.

And also see my reply 9 update in the Community Health thread

https://democraticunderground.com/125629423#post9

for a link to my message about a fake Jimmy Kimmel video that had been posted to DU

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220836071#post34

and that was not only fake, but had a disclaimer where the AI-using YouTuber had inserted Gavin Newsom's name instead of Kimmel's - and then corrected it at least a day later. Indicating that fraudster probably had Gavin Newsom deepfakes uploaded to yet another YouTube channel, and had lost track of which name went with each channel.

But whether or not it's the same AI-using fraudster, it's still a deepfake, still fraud and completely unethical, even with the disclaimers few people are likely to notice.

I'm sorry you were tricked, but your OP is now tricking others into spreading this deepfake.

Please delete it.

And please be more careful.

I'm sorry I didn't see your thread earlier. My thanks to SheltieLover for pointing it out to me.

FarPoint

(14,470 posts)
16. Oh for Chrissake!
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 11:24 AM
5 hrs ago


I just can't take this fake media any longer! I'm an honest person, every day trying to find good in a sea of evil....

Robert De Niro also has a YouTube channel . " The Bobby Report"...so I took the bait...

Regardless...at least this reflected the reality of the trumpian speech...

Sorry....


Oh look her.... I went ahead and googled to see if the Bobby Report was real..... NOPE! It is not!

Fuck!
No, the YouTube channel "The Bobby Report" is not Robert De Niro's official channel. The channel description explicitly states that it uses AI to generate content in his likeness.
The videos on "The Bobby Report" use artificial intelligence to mimic Robert De Niro's face and voice to promote its messages, and the content is not authorized or created by the actor himself. Robert De Niro has no association with the channel.

highplainsdem

(59,535 posts)
20. I'm so sorry the AI companies have made this kind of fraud not only possible, but easy. It's one of
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 11:33 AM
5 hrs ago

the reasons you see me posting so much about AI here.

highplainsdem

(59,535 posts)
14. I've added a reply/update about this thread and that YouTube channel to my Community Help thread on deepfakes.
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 11:16 AM
5 hrs ago

highplainsdem

(59,535 posts)
15. Just noticed the video now has an "Altered or synthetic content" label on it that wasn't on it earlier, but
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 11:21 AM
5 hrs ago

should have been.

YouTube shouldn't allow deepfakes like this at all. They're horribly unfair to both the famous people whose images and voices are exploited, and to all the people tricked by them for even a few minutes. No one creating deepfakes like this is truly a fan of the famous person who's being used as a puppet to get clicks/views and maybe a bit of money.

FarPoint

(14,470 posts)
17. OMG...
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 11:26 AM
5 hrs ago

I am too old to learn to navigate successfully all the deception we live in daily....from span, Phishing, AI....It is the Upside down world now...

highplainsdem

(59,535 posts)
18. That label wasn't there earlier. The YouTuber most likely saw responses - mine or others - identifying
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 11:30 AM
5 hrs ago

the video as fraud, and added the label in a hurry. That channel should be shut down.

highplainsdem

(59,535 posts)
23. It should be reported. Unfortunately, YouTube actively encourages their users to use AI tools. So you
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 11:40 AM
4 hrs ago

see deepfakes and copyright infringement all over YouTube, and misleading AI-generated content about health and history and science and any other topic, and the worthwhile content is more and more getting buried in AI slop.

FarPoint

(14,470 posts)
24. I am just going to stick with the regulars like
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 11:51 AM
4 hrs ago

Aaron Parnas, Littman, MidasTouch, Resistance Live........cooking videos...keep it simple. I will have to say in my box or boundaries.....

highplainsdem

(59,535 posts)
27. That's safest. And there's actually an app now to block you from seeing internet content after 2023,
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 12:08 PM
4 hrs ago

because there's some chance it might be AI. Saw articles and social media posts on that. But it's useless if you want to see any news or recent content.

I have to admit that these days when I see anyone post an artist I don't recognize in Music Appreciation - which I host, and where AI isn't welcome because it isn't real music or art - I say a little prayer, when I click on it, that it won't be AI. And I'm relieved if there's a date for the YouTube upload long enough ago that it can't be generative AI.

Intractable

(1,548 posts)
22. YouTube shouldn't allow deepfakes like this at all.
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 11:39 AM
4 hrs ago

More importantly, DU shouldn't allow this crap.

highplainsdem

(59,535 posts)
25. I agree. But since it can be hard to identify deepfakes, I wouldn't want alerts or posts being hidden, as with
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 11:56 AM
4 hrs ago

other violations of rules - unless, maybe, someone flatly refused to remove a deepfake that had been identified as such. And in this case FarPoint might want to leave it in the OP to show YouTube how he was tricked (EDIT: how she was tricked), before the synthetic content label was added.

Intractable

(1,548 posts)
28. Ummm. It's obvious Farpoint doesn't care.
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 12:36 PM
3 hrs ago

This video had the label of "Altered content" from its inception. You just didn't notice it.

Just imagine if Google didn't label them this way. How easily fooled we all would be. I suspect that is coming in the future.

highplainsdem

(59,535 posts)
29. I didn't see it, and I've noticed those labels before. And other deepfakes of famous people have appeared
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 12:59 PM
3 hrs ago

here without the altered content label. No one who replied earlier had mentioned seeing it, either. I didn't see it last night, when the video was called to my attention, or when I looked at it again before replying this morning, and I clicked on the video more than once in the OP. Didn't see the synthetic content label till after my own reply was there.

So I know YouTube isn't labeling all of them. They probably expect the YouTube user to label them.

FarPoint is complaining directly to YouTube and leaving the OP there for that reason, to show the confusion and harm caused. I told her earlier that she SHOULD leave the video there for that reason.

Intractable

(1,548 posts)
30. I see. So you wish to cause more confusion to point out the confusion.
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 01:09 PM
3 hrs ago

This thread taken as a whole is absurd.

highplainsdem

(59,535 posts)
31. I'm not trying to cause confusion. I'm explaining that I didn't see any synthetic-content label there
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 01:15 PM
3 hrs ago

earlier, despite looking at the OP and clicking on the video multiple times.

YouTube does NOT add those labels automatically. The creator has to add them:

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/14328491?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid

Intractable

(1,548 posts)
32. Look at the thread overall to see the confusion you cause.
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 01:23 PM
3 hrs ago

This OP should have been taken down. Nice and simple. Please don't explain anything else to me. Just don't.

niyad

(129,306 posts)
33. No, it did not when I first saw it on youtube. The alert was added later,
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 01:28 PM
3 hrs ago

after thousands of views and many complaints of it being fake.

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