Post by henrycolp on Mar 19, 2021 18:55:21 GMT
I'm new here but I've been a little obsessed with Christine Chubbuck since I saw the movie Christine some years ago. Also sorry if my english is not perfect, English is my second language.
I think that the audio could be real. The audio matches the police report, my theory is that the original source is a magnetic tape recording (maybe cassette) that the police did of the death footage, that same recording was then used for the police report. Probably the tape then stayed on the police station for years and someone who knew about Christine took it and then sold it to some collector.
The thing is that the voice matches the one in the Suncoast Digest clip. Listen how they both pronounce hospital. If it's a fake is a professional fake, they had to use a profesional voice actress that studied that Suncoast Digest clip. The audio not only matches the police report, but also matches the incidents from the day before that are redacted from the same report. That's a lot of research, money and time I guess.
I'm leaning more that it's real. It could be fake, but it's really a high effort, the guy did a lot of research.
I have a feeling that we may see more fake Christine videos popping up as deepfake AI takes off. The only way to 100% verify authenticity is if
(1) the uploaded video is a direct upload of a source, not some alleged copy of a copy of a copy. Anyone can make that claim.
(2) said source is a C or U-Matic tape that recorded the broadcast in-studio
(3) the timecode embedded in the vertical blanking interval of the tape is in line with the timecode from another point during the broadcast day.
In other words, if the Christine tape begins at 08:25:00:01, and another tape from, let's say, the noon newscast begins at 10:25:00:01, it's likely that both tapes came from the same location. Also, SMPTE timecode usually didn't transfer over to consumer-grade VCRs (and possibly not even TXed OTA), so if someone comes forward with a tape and says "this is the real deal", have them play it in a broadcast-grade VCR instead and see if the readout on the front displays timecode. If it does, dig further into it. If not, it's a fake.
And if its a Beta or VHS tape, I would also consider it fake, as Beta launched in '75 and VHS in '77. You're options for recordable home video media in the US in '74 were limited to U-Matic or CV-2000.
This was 1974, that broadcast was probably recorded on Videotape, I'm no expert on 70's technology, but could you easily capture the audio from the videotape at that time? We're talking about a police station in a small south Florida town. Probably it was easier to just do a new recording.
Also I don't think this is AI. AI deep fake voice still has a "robot" feel and doesn't feel like a real person yet. In the Christine's audio feels real, she's clearly reading and flubbing some of the lines.
Example deep fake voice: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWK_iYBl8cA&ab_channel=Dessa
However you can do all of that with a voice actor.