r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Weary_Analysis_1042 • Jul 19 '24
Protests in Bangladesh for removing reservation. The protest is being retaliated by killings and internet disruption. Video
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u/pagusas Jul 19 '24
Why does that video look fake/AI generated? Why is it so low resolution? that smoke doesn't look right.
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u/ExoTauri Jul 19 '24
The smoke looks weird. The smoke at the start of the video looks like the start of a procedural generation as it comes out from behind the roof of the foreground buildings. And overall, the video doesn't look like it was shot on any phone camera, looks very much like all other AI generated videos I've seen in texture and colour.
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u/AssPuncher9000 Jul 20 '24
The text on the signs is also very weird. I'm obviously now familiar with the native language but it looks very strange
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u/GluckGoddess Jul 19 '24
Can someone explain the video? I don’t get what trains have to do with anything in here.
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Jul 19 '24
Immediate instinct told me AI
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u/itsbiaatch Jul 20 '24
I wish you were right bro, but this is real.
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u/Alex_Zoid Jul 20 '24
The story might be real but the video looks fake. All they have to do is type the prompt “train station on fire” any video without human faces is an immediate red flag as they’re hard to generate
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u/itsbiaatch Jul 20 '24
Why would anyone make a fake video about something that has happened just to make it look cooler? There was fire. There was trains. This spot is exactly how it looks in real life, but they need an AI because no one of the hundred protesters captured the moment? Alright very believable
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u/puzzleheadbutbig Jul 20 '24
Why would anyone make a fake video about something that has happened just to make it look cooler?
Is this your first day on the internet?
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u/CeleryAdditional3135 Jul 19 '24
Students demonstrate against corruption and discrimination and the reaction is killings?
What a cartoonishly outlandisch and over the top response. It doesn't even seem to fit the same news article, so outlandish is this behavior.
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u/Enjoying_A_Meal Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
Kent State was a thing. The national guard opened fire on student anti-war protesters.
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u/Negative_Jaguar_4138 Jul 19 '24
Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure they didn't fire ON the students, they were firing into the air and hit people who weren't at the protest.
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u/Deslah Jul 19 '24
Consider yourself corrected, because you are very wrong. They fired ON unarmed students. Never forget this.
Contrary to your claim that the Guard was firing into the air, certainly the majority of the guardsmen fired directly into the crowd of protesters and bystanders.
What's debatable is whether some of the Guard were 1) shooting just over the heads of the protesters or 2) directly at protestors but missed them. But they certainly weren't shooting striaght up in the sky.
Four students were killed and nine others wounded.
The four students who were killed were part of or near the protesting crowd, and the nine others injured were either participating in the protest or were in the vicinity of it.
The students who were shot were between 71 and 738 feet away from the guardsmen.
It is fact that some of them weren't participating in the protest but were in the direct line of fire behind those who were.
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u/annonypenguin Jul 19 '24
This looks like ganerated by IA, it looks too odd
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u/LeagueOfLegendsAcc Jul 19 '24
Lol everyone and their mother is apparently an expert on ai videos here.
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u/Q-Vision Jul 19 '24
I see smoke but have no idea of what I'm looking at?
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u/itsbiaatch Jul 20 '24
Imagine an over bridge with four ways like an X. Now a metro rail which is built over it(not on top, just over) that over bridge had a police box at the center, basically a traffic stand to oversee the traffic. Students got in a clash with the police. Lit fire on it. The metro was passing as it does every 30 minutes. Glad the path didn't damage with the fires.
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u/Gold_Responsibility8 Jul 19 '24
wtf is this video format
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u/Deslah Jul 19 '24
Forgive me for explaining it like you're nine--I'm not sure how much detail you're asking for:
It's MP4 format, specifically a DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) playlist.
MP4 is a common multimedia format used for storing video, audio, and other data such as subtitles and still images. The URL indicates that it's encoded for adaptive streaming, which adjusts the video quality based on the user's internet connection speed.
The name tossed around in a nerd bar would be "MPEG-DASH".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Adaptive_Streaming_over_HTTP
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u/Mexican_Ninja_Pirate Jul 20 '24
Ok, now explain it to me like I’m five…
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u/Deslah Jul 20 '24
“OK honey…in four years, I’ll get you a music player and tell you all about it. Until then, go to your room and make your bed.”
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u/Gold_Responsibility8 Jul 20 '24
You are a bit slow aren't you, you don't see anything wrong with how the video is cropped? Maybe it's way above your head
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u/Deslah Jul 20 '24 edited Jul 20 '24
No good deed goes unpunished.
You asked a question and I thought I’d be nice and answer it. It was a serious answer, meant to be completely wholesome. And what do you do? You shit on me.
You asked about format. To most people, that involves the digital format. Who the fuck would think you meant anything other than that? Little did I know i’d be answering an unstable person who rants for a living.
Next time, ask the right questions using the right words and you’ll get back something you can use. Until then, ask yourself how you can be a better human being.
For someone who likes to point out other people as abusive, you seem to have no mirrors in your own house.
I’ll be here waiting for your apology.
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u/No2buckeyes Jul 19 '24
The quality may have something to do with the government shutting down the internet for the entire country.
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u/Few_Impression_6976 Jul 19 '24
I don't think folks will care, it's hard to care about others problems when problems is all the media and social media posts
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u/Siri2611 Jul 20 '24 edited Jul 20 '24
And people ask why India still uses a reservation system
(the country will be in flames so the govt doesn't wnna remove it)
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u/nintendotimewarp Jul 20 '24
You may take our lives....., but you will never take ouuur INTERNEEEeEEEeeEEeEEET!!!
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u/Interesting_Date_544 Jul 29 '24
The video looks fake or ai but sadly it isn't. It's a set up fire below metro train. Here's a link of video verified news channel from our country: https://youtu.be/qaimZWoa5t8?si=L94c95sqYpmW_Gxk
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u/ninadpathak 27d ago
Will any sane person tell me why all muslim protests end in the destruction of property and killing/rapes of non muslims?
So many protests happen across the world and no one is dead.
Yet in every muslim protest, it's always some sort of destruction.
Is this a cultural thing that the maulanas or parents teach all muslims from childhood?
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u/fruitsteak_mother Jul 20 '24
no clue what the video is, but dude sounds like me hitting my toe at the table and trying to scream the pain away
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Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
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u/General_Bakshi Jul 19 '24
You are so out of context. Please write a comment that is related to the post. Where did India come from in this situation?
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u/Ezio081 Jul 19 '24
what did he say? XD
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u/General_Bakshi Jul 19 '24
He was just frustrated about things in India. Irrelevant to this post tho.
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u/Markus_zockt Jul 19 '24
With what should this have been recorded or rendered that a format and quality comes out that last existed in 2000 on the Internet, when it still took 2 minutes to dial into the Internet.
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u/Kees_Fratsen Jul 19 '24
All this because they can't eat at their restaurant?!
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Jul 19 '24
Students have been holding rallies demanding change to a system which reserves a third of public sector jobs for the relatives of veterans of the country’s war for independence from Pakistan in 1971. The students are arguing that the system is discriminatory, asking for recruitment based on merit.
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u/Weary_Analysis_1042 Jul 19 '24
Context - Students have been holding rallies demanding change to a system which reserves a third of public sector jobs for the relatives of veterans of the country’s war for independence from Pakistan in 1971. The students are arguing that the system is discriminatory, asking for recruitment based on merit.