News AI trump face filter

[Maninacan]

Twice i have seen trump speaking on the news and his face looks filtered or soft focus. Is it my imagination? Looks like a super light censor filter. Both viewings were a few days apart. Something looked weird.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Often happens with streaming. You did not say how you are viewing it

I think it is a mistake to immediately jump to an AI is to blame, which is over-used as a blame or excuse.

If you watch on a "phone" or a tablet or computer, then streaming can drop a few packets (of internet data) and the picture looks blurred.

How the packets work is that some packets define the whole picture in greatly reduced terms. A 4K picture (video frame) might be sent out as a 400 x 250 (appr) image in one or a few packets and then this is refined with detail in more packets. Those areas with the greatest change from frame to frame get the most packets.

So if the internet drops some packets the software/hardware gets the next overall packet and puts that up, saying "at least we have something to show".

If you are watching TV over any kind of fibre optic connection, it is streamed even if doesn't label itself that way.

How were you watching that?
Was it one particular network, same both times?
Was it Tiktok video? YouTube? Another service?

[Maninacan]

3. Filter

I am not a conspiracy believer type. The video was him in front of the helicopter. Probably internet on desktop or laptop.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Was the helicopter blurred similarly? Was there any blockiness to the image (medium sized rectangles)?

Blur is hard to quantitize particularly when there is a telephoto lens in use. If it is a wide angle, then the helicopter might start out as sharp as the face but (in the hypothesis) the face was blurred.

Did the face unblur at any time in that video? What was the source of the video? Because even if it had a network label on it, it may have passed through other hands.

I don't think we can figure out what happened, but you got my curiosity going.

[chowder66]

2. It's the pudding effect. His brain is pudding and the camera's are picking up the puddin' emissions.

[IcyPeas]

4. Perhaps he's using a new brand of bronzer