Mike Burr - log

[so-][Al] Disrupting a Trash Mob with Crowd Chortling

Do you like a good rally? Who doesn't like a good rally! Nuremberg could throw a good rally!

And "your own voice" is a special thing, in a burned-in psychological kind of way:

We can now do the following unnerving thing to rally goers.

Using various Al magic, one could set up a whole-whole-whole bunch of cameras and mics in the rally venue [Is there a sneaky secret way? Probably. Not yet, and not covered here.]

When the great man appears on stage and the crowd is led in what-fucking-ever deeply patriotic interactive activity (like... "who's rally?"/"our rally!") have the mics and cams pick up all the excitement.

The mics and cams might need some quiet time beforehand to understand the "acoustics" of the space. Likely we don't want these mics and cams to move after any "calibration".

Given enough mics and cams and fidelity, we could work toward the goal of being able to pick a random rally participant and cancel out everything other than this person's voice.

Further, given that we have lots of mics and cams and fidelity we can triangulate the location in space of the mouth that is making this sound. They are probably wearing a name tag or lanyarded laminate or at least are all over goddamn Facebook. Why else would the be at a rally?

Maybe they are wearing a distinctive read red hat with a plush vagina on it.

Even if you don't know who this is, you can still closeup on their face and play their isolated voice, in the middle of all this passion and fellowship.

And you can maybe do this for at least a few folks. I mean... minus all the fancy technology, you can do pretty good with an expensive directional mic. Maybe an Al-enhanced directional mic?

Being able to do this en masse would be great, but even with minimal fanciness, this can be done some. En-mass and impromptu, with just some folks discreetly wearing cams and mics amidst their flair will maybe take time. But we can do a pretty damned good job without too much effort.

[Come on, folks! Rally with me here!]

We're very sure that Al can edit out surrounding people.

We can find the biggest, loudest idiot screaming "Death to not-America!", isolate their voice and visage, lasso that out of the scene and have them doing their thing elsewhere if we want.

We could have an obese, committed lesbian shouting "hey hey! ho ho! ban on aborshun got to go!" or "seventeen dollars and sixty there cents! today's minimum wage don't make no sense!" ...with pink cheeks and infinite passion ...right in the middle of an empty Walmart. Or maybe just on a black background.

We could have a jowly 70 year old pickup truck owner madly screaming "USA! USA! Four more years!" and "boooooo! but we hates the muslims!!" ...with bulging wet eyes and absolute conviction ...on a boat, during a rap video. Or maybe in a Facebook reply.

No reasonable person, minus the crowd and all the noise and "energy", is going to witness themselves looking and sounding like that without at least a tiny glimmer of enlightenment happening.