The BFD | Deep-Fake

The luvvies are adither and aghast; someone is creating deep-fake clips satirising she who must not be satirised. Apparently, this is “terrible” and “disturbing”. The “Fisherman’s Friend”, Clarke Gayford, the fiancé of our Prime Minister asks, “Who is doing this, and why?”

Created by ‘Genuine Fake New Zealand deepfakes’ the clips feature Ms Ardern, among other things, ‘smoking a joint’:

“If you’re part of the cabal that thinks that Jacinda Ardern is a lizard-person, a member of the Illuminati, or involved in some other global conspiracy, all you need to do is to share this video and other like-minded fools will pick it up and share it, and then your estranged aunt is linking you to it on Facebook and saying, “See! She’s ruined the country!” Or not, there’s no telling since, as Einstein informed us, unlike the universe, stupidity has no bounds. It’s a leg-pull some will find hilarious, others a little less so.

Of more concern is the ongoing deepfake odyssey propelled by the country’s increasingly emboldened radical left: the Deepfake Aotearoa project in which history is being rewritten with Europeans and British universally cast as bad actors, the locals benign and benevolent.

In a screed headlined “How Australia was almost named New Zealand” Joel MacManus grapples with his deepfake dilemma in describing the unfortunate circumstance of the members of Abel Tasman’s crew who, having shown no malice or mischief towards the Ngati Tumatakokiri natives they encountered, were nevertheless brutally slain by the same.

In an effort to mitigate the sudden, savage, and unprovoked murders MacManus employs imagination and an academic, sullying both, in offering us this creative explanation:

“The bay Tasman’s two ships anchored in was near a rich and important area for food production. It was the middle of kumara harvest, which may have been why so many warriors and waka from surrounding areas were present.”

Oh, for heaven’s sake; Joel, that’s just a ridiculous defence. It was December 18th, the kumara will only have been in the ground weeks, ‘harvest’ wouldn’t be possible for at least a further three months, but likely not until April of the following year.

Some may find fact-free Stuff‘s Deepfake Aotearoa project hilarious, others not so much, but the stupid and the gullible will read it and many will believe it, and there’s the unsettling thing: that while the vids that have Jacindaphiles in a spin are clearly labelled ‘Fake’. MacManus’s shoddy outfit actually pretends to be truthful and honest: