DA MP Renaldo Gouws claims a video of him uttering racial slurs was manipulated by AI.
Last week following the establishment of the Government of National Unity which includes the ANC, DA, IFP, PA and GOOD, members of parliament were sworn into office. Unfortunately for one of those individuals, the last week has been marred by controversy.
The video in question was sent to IOL by a source who pointed the publication to the Internet Archive. At the time, Gouws went by the username R3NDI3R online and the video in question starts off with the now DA MP stating, “There’s a couple of things I want to say. Kill all the fu**ing k*****s, kill all the fu**ing n*****s. That’s all I’ve got to fu**ing say. Kill all the k*****s, kill all the fu**ing n*****s.
Not only would 10 500 GPUs from 2011 not be enough to meet the compute requirements for AI, the technology needed to train an AI model to mimic a person so effectively simply wasn’t as advanced as it is today. The video in question also tracks with Gouws’ own fashion style. The creator can be seen wearing the same green shirt and branded beanie in other videos published at around the same time. Anecdotally, we also met Gouws in passing at a local YouTube event in 2016 when he was using the R3NDI3R name.
The more plausible explanation is that Gouws made the video containing extreme bigotry to spark a reaction and he eventually got that reaction.
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