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FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said on Fox News Thursday morning that he is certain Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender, died by suicide while in federal custody โ€” and there is video that supports it.

"There is nothing in the file at this point on the Epstein case โ€” and there is going to be a disclosure on this coming shortly... there is video. That is something the public does not know," Bongino said in an interview on Fox & Friends.

Bongino clarified that the video in question does not show the "actual act" but proves that Epstein was the only person who came in or out of his cell on the night he died, on August 10, 2019.

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[-] [email protected] 54 points 3 days ago

Took 6 years for the deepfake/AI technology to catch up...

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

It's the only explanation

[-] [email protected] 45 points 3 days ago
[-] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago

I am sure they would never use AI to make this video at all. I mean they would have access to his jail feed to train it on, then just put in some more data from what I am sure they have of people offing themselves.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

you wouldn't need any AI to fake a video that "proves that Epstein was the only person who came in or out of his cell on the night he died" ๐Ÿ˜‚

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

Not a bit suspicious. After years, the FBI under Trump suddenly "finds" something evidence-like that is convenient for the president. All while AI generated videos are getting better and better.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

We couldn't see this within a year of it happening why? Why exactly?

But now that they've had plenty of time to edit, cut, splice, or AI together a bunch of footage of an empty hallway in front of a cell with timestamps on it suddenly we have proof that isn't that definitive but would have been more convincing if released within months to a year of his death.

I'm calling it that this is just footage of a hallway with no view into the cell, footage that could have been edited together from footage from previous days or later days, it may or may not show guards walking up and down. At most it'll have time-stamps hard-coded into the video stream but anyone with access to the facility could record video from that angle after the fact and add in their own hard time-stamps that match those used by the systems in place at the time. It would be possible pre-AI to do this kind of manipulation and fakery with a single experienced Hollywood film editor but AI could definitely be used to make it more convincing especially if you're trying to insert a now dead guard into the picture.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

Did it take them this long to come up with a convincing enough deep fake?

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I see nothing that indicates the video is not a recreation or authentic.

What the government doesn't say is often more true than what they do say.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Cool, release it

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Bullshit, release the tape then.

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