Berichten zufolge nutzt China KI, um Propaganda auf YouTube zu generieren. Von ultradünnen Chips bis hin zur Infrastruktur schwärmen Inhalte über chinesische Errungenschaften.

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1. There are entire university institutes that focus almost exclusively on Chinese disinformation

2. I just watched a few of these to see for myself. It’s all buzzwords repeated ad nauseum. You get a few minutes before they begin repeating themselves. No individuals, companies, dates or specifics mentioned in any “breakthroughs”. AI is getting pretty good at sounding convincing to anyone going into these without any critical thought though.

3. My dad watches these constantly. He can’t tell that they’re AI generated voices. Any effort to tell him that it’s propaganda or not real he’ll hit back with a “you are just believing in American propaganda”.

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5. Numerous accounts with these thumbnails appear when you search for topics related to US/China chips. They don’t even attempt to conceal it, and inevitably, you’ll encounter the familiar CCP-sponsored “influencer.”

6. Here are some observations I made after watching like a dozen of these channels :

   1. First, there won’t be any reporting on bad stuff regarding Chinese economy. No news about Country Garden or Evergrande or real estate crisis.
   2. The thumbnails are extremely provocative : “Japan is doomed to fail”, “The collapse of US”, “Why Indians are a lazy race” etc.
   3. Many of these channels are “located” in US, as if to lend some credibility to their propaganda.

   Regarding WuMao patterns,

   1. A close look at their profiles reveal that many of them have joined youtube in the same month. The people making comments and replying to them all have joined coincidentally in the same month and same year, usually 6 months from the date the video was posted.
   2. Copying a random comment and using the search function almost always yields duplicate comments either on the same video or another video in the same channel focusing on the same topic.

7. Chinese AI is poor because it has limited training data, it can only be trained on ‘acceptable information’. Since US AI has singificantly fewer restrictions on which data it can access, the AI lead will continue to be in the US’s favour. This is what happens when you stifle innovation through controlling thought.

8. Makes me think that recent news about China inventing some futuristic unstoppable laser weapon that goes faster than the speed of light in a vacuum, was also AI-generated.

9. Good thing I’m immune to propaganda!… I say spoken like a true idiot.

10. Those stupid commies. I would never fall for propaganda like those dumb ass commies. I only listen to real unbiased news like RadioFreeAsia

11. Tbh, I’d have to watch these videos to be sure that they’re propaganda lol. Literally every YouTubers nowadays has these annoying thumbnails. I once saw a captain saying UK inflation drops, what next, with the thumbnail being starmer crying or something😅

12. Content gushes about Chinese accomplishments: the Tiananmen Squar highlights are great