China uses AI to generate propaganda on YouTube, report finds
China uses AI to generate propaganda on YouTube, report finds
From ultra-thin chips to infrastructure, content gushes about Chinese accomplishments.
In a YouTube video, a voice in English announces that China has researched and developed its own ultra-thin 1-nanometer chip – a staggering claim given that the chip isn’t expected in commercial devices for another decade.
"Recent news from China has sent ripples of excitement and astonishment across the globe," gushes the voice-over on the China Charged YouTube channel. "This revolutionary breakthrough is more than a technological marvel; it is a game-changer that will redefine the global tech landscape."
"Prepare to have your mind blown," says another video, this time on the channel Unbelievable Projects. "Welcome to today's video, in which we'll discover why America remains behind China in infrastructure development."
These voices and their “good news” about China are evidence that the Chinese Communist Party and its overseas proxies are using artificial intelligence to flood YouTube with propaganda videos, according to a new report that describes a "coordinated inauthentic influence campaign" on the platform.
The specifics of this article aside, I am so not looking forward to the continued proliferation of AI based bullshit on the internet/public discourse/the media/etc. It’s gonna get so so much worse, we’re just scratching the surface right now. The validity of any photo or video will be destroyed and nothing will be trustworthy anymore. This is great news for fascists who thrive in a world where the truth is unknowable and meaningless.
Sometimes I wonder if there are different "levels" of propaganda nation states put out. Like you have this obviously fake crap get a bunch of surface-knowlege people. Then you have more subtle things put out - like social media accounts pretending that something false is a ground truth. You'll then get people who can catch the fake videos and then believe the fake accounts no problem because it's obviously can't be propaganda - because you know what propaganda looks like. cough gell-mann amnesia cough
Or maybe nation states are really that incompetent and the only level of propaganda they can put out is like the article's videos. Honestly people give way too much credit to how much these folks know/plan out. There's no secret cabal playing 5d chess. They're normal people (ie. dumbfucks) pushing a message.
Who knows.
Give them a break they don't have a 24 hour cable news channel for propaganda
This made me think of what you can do with AI to poke fun at china, and sadly it seems that microsoft is a bit hard on anti china prompts. But like, life finds a way.....
What's next? They landed on the dark side of the sun? North Korea already did that.
This is very poor form, at least employ agents like the american 3 letters.
RFA is a private, nonprofit corporation, funded by the U.S. Congress through the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), an independent federal government agency that oversees all U.S. civilian international media. In addition to providing oversight, the USAGM works with RFA to ensure the professional independence and integrity of its journalism.
Well, China has to steal their tech from some foreign company, why not lie about it before they do.
Disclaimer: I didnt watch the video but did see the original post in question on Lemmy and was impressed. Now I'll never believe another pro-China post again. Nice work!
The specifics of this article aside, I am so not looking forward to the continued proliferation of AI based bullshit on the internet/public discourse/the media/etc. It’s gonna get so so much worse, we’re just scratching the surface right now. The validity of any photo or video will be destroyed and nothing will be trustworthy anymore. This is great news for fascists who thrive in a world where the truth is unknowable and meaningless.
This article is itself propaganda that aims to provoke hatred with the most ridiculous justifications possible.
China has researched and developed its own ultra-thin 1-nanometer chip – a staggering claim given that the chip isn’t expected in commercial devices for another decade.
...and? Nobody cares when Intel or AMD talk about their latest research. The writer doesn't even try to present the design as unviable or fake, they just arbitrarily decide that it's evil to talk about it.
Welcome to today's video, in which we'll discover why America remains behind China in infrastructure development.
Gadzooks not the American infrastructure! How dare they criticize that! I guess we should ban all the fuckcars communities because they're always comparing American infrastructure to other countries unfavorably. And that's undermining american democracy or something. What is this person smoking?
This article is itself propaganda that aims to provoke hatred with the most ridiculous justifications possible.
China has researched and developed its own ultra-thin 1-nanometer chip – a staggering claim given that the chip isn’t expected in commercial devices for another decade.
...and? Nobody cares when Intel or AMD talk about their latest research. The writer doesn't even try to present the design as unviable or fake, they just arbitrarily decide that it's evil to talk about it.
Welcome to today's video, in which we'll discover why America remains behind China in infrastructure development.
Gadzooks not the American infrastructure! How dare they criticize that! I guess we should ban all the fuckcars communities because they're always comparing American infrastructure to other countries unfavorably. And that's undermining american democracy or something. What is this person smoking?