Deepfake Deepcake: Adios ICE

This month we're watching deepfake companies make fools of themselves. To be fair, this last one is pretty:

I posted this the day the Border Patrol's Gregory Bovino was fired. The pun is that this Minneapolis landmark is called the IDS. Later I wanted to clarify it to ADIOS ICE but I had reached Google's usage limit.

Look at this animation of drafts. Fascinating how everything shifts a little, like clouds in successive photos, and how the reflected clouds become lit-up windows.

As all teachers know, plagiarism is the ancient art of shmushing documents together. Apparently many deepfake programs can't not shmush, even when asked for plain reality. Because no, there's no six-lane megastreet under the IDS, and no mega-skyway covering the sidestreet like a double-decker bridge.

Even the earliest railroads connected you to real places. Three years in these are still connecting you to baloney.

Just as there's no basement at the Alamo— or is there? The generic brown towers are fantasy too. And get those— people?— out of the street! “Pee-wee's Big Adventure (9/10) Movie CLIP - The Alamo Tour (1985) HD,” YouTube. “Pee-Wee Herman Finds The Alamo Basement,” YouTube. Robert Wellman Campbell, "Deepfake Deepcake: Adios ICE," RSS Longa, 26 February 2026, public domain via CC0 1.0.