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China uses AI to generate propaganda on YouTube, report finds (www.rfa.org)

submitted 11 months ago by MicroWave to c/world

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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.

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[+] [email protected] -13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

These are not conservative talking points that's so disingenuous dude.

EVs require metals that aren't really too great to mine for our planet, most of the time that mining requires the use of diesel despite what we wanna believe.

I'm all for green energy and better awareness of our species pollution but you're basically being duped by Elon Musk wannabes promising the future that will turn out just like everything Elon does, absolutely trash and we're gonna wonder why we wasted time with half of this shit.

The real solution is cars gotta go, public transit needs to be the only transit and parking lots and roads gotta go but the car industry and the infrastructure we invested in is too worth it so we will follow the sunk cost off the cliff and people like you will support it because its slightly better than it used to be even though it is still bad.