Name: Elon Musk, Social Media Censorship, and Bots
Uploaded: 2022-04-16T17:22:10.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Elon Musk, Social Media Censorship, and Bots' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-04-16. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Elon Musk, Social Media Censorship, and Bots' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-04-16. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience to me yes it's so funny to imagine that any company is
letting me advertise for them something in that makes me feel gleeful when I'm
doing it and it's cool that most of them are cool with it you're doing it is so
fun it's so fun it's like clearly just fun yeah and this delicious this is so
good ma'am so good but you know man like Musk he's finally doing the
thing if I were a billionaire for sure it's like oh I'll just buy Twitter can I
buy Twitter let's see what happens he doesn't care I think he does care you
think he cares yeah he does genuinely he's concerned about censorship freedom
of
speech yes he's very he said freedom of speech is someone you don't like excuse
me freedom of speech is someone you don't like saying something you don't want
to
hear he goes they have to have that right yeah it's essential to a democracy
yeah
and most people objectively agree the problem is he gets scared because they
see how like mobs of people can move in a very negative direction right I think
people there's a real concern like I am in no way supporting censorship clearly
right
absolutely the opposite but I understand why people are concerned about large
groups of
people being really shitty and all right and getting on the social media
platforms that
they've done they've done this campaign over the last few years to like silence
certain voices stop
aggressive people stop people are being shitty to people get in yeah isn't some
of some of that is
good right sure like doc stop doxing stop people are threatening people stop
people who are harassing
people but it's like where does it end and how do you know you don't that's
work that's where it's
fucking weird because if you just let wild free speech like there's gonna be a
but like there's a bunch of
people on like 4chan and those kind of places yeah and they're saying stuff
just for fun right because
nobody knows who they are and they can just say it and they don't fucking mean
it yeah saying
because it's a crazy thing to say if you're at work in a job you hate sitting
in your cubicle and you
decide to make a frog with a nazi outfit on and it doesn't mean you're a real
nazi and it doesn't
mean it's the word edgelord edgelording it's an edgelord those people are they're
confined to small corners of the
internet right now and if if you just let them loose if you let the frog people
loose yeah like
you remember the frog people during the trunk the trump campaign yeah of course
took over the frog the
frog guy the guy had him on my podcast he's very cool what did he say just what
yours what the fuck
the frog was never a nazi the frog was like funny and sweet was he upset they
took his frog yeah it was
i think it would be a little bit like the first person who had the hitler
mustache wow you know
what i mean like imagine and then hitler sees it and he's like god that's
fucking cool i'm gonna start
having a mustache like that you're like no it's like that but also you know i
don't i don't know how
many people know that like the they discovered an egyptian god and again this
could all be trolling
kek the god of chaos who happens to be a frog so yeah what was what so within
that whatever that was
an actual like chaos magic was being they were calling it meme magic or
whatever they were all
they were like actively doing chaos magic and a lot of their rituals seem to
have worked to some degree
so yeah i know what you mean like the the the question like the question is in
a world where
we don't even know how many of these people are human who are writing shit
right on twitter or
wherever right look at what gpt what is it three or two the ai that like
completely imitates human
beings like have you ever gone to the explain how that works it's a it's a
neural network that can be
programmed to different personalities that can imitate human speech well enough
that they can leave
messages and you don't know for sure if it's a human or not wow so if you go to
on reddit there's a
subreddit which is the ai bots arguing with each other oh my god on the reddit
and like once i left
that up and i remember i was just reading it thinking i was on the front page
of reddit and getting really
engaged in the arguments these bots were having with each other it's that
convincing so the the freedom
of speech thing runs into okay of course it's like a no-brainer humanist ideal
humans should be able to
say whatever they want this is this is like the most important way that we we
must have some kind of
debate or discourse where one person is allowed to be a complete asshole right
and not because we want
assholes but because hopefully in the discussion some bit of truth will sink
down into their consciousness
and they will grow as a person that i think that's what their roots that's the
hope that's the hope
but what is what if the person is a robot uh is an ai device that is being made
to have certain
personalities that represent demographics that you're trying to manipulate is a
corporation or a
state or whatever at that point is it freedom of speech or bots allowed to have
freedom of speech
this is this is the uh what i one of the things musk was saying he might do
with twitter which i think
is brilliant anyone can get the stupid blue check mark you pay for it and you
have to verify yourself
so that like you're we know you're a real person right meaning that it would be
too expensive for the
bot swarms to function it would it would go from being like if you have a blue
check mark whatever
you're something or whatever too if you don't have a blue check mark you're
probably a bot and so then
we eliminate all the ai all the state-sponsored shills all the people who've
spent years and years and
years building these fake identities online like they're like uh farming
personalities because you know
in the old days somebody tweets some and you're like what the is that and you
go and look at their
account and it's like three days old so it has less credibility but they've
been growing these
personalities for years so you go and look at their tweets and it kind of looks
like a person mixed in
with their interminable tweets about some political issue like only an insane
person every three minutes
tweeting something or like went to the pool with dairy today you know what i
mean and some weird
distant picture of a pool so it kind of seems like a real person anyway the
point is the freedom of
speech issue is uh right now we're running into the problem of brand new
technologies that aren't even
human that are being designed to influence public discourse in a way that's
going to push the needle
towards whatever it is right whatever your laws your corporation wants whatever
some the state wants and
we know for sure they're being implemented that way fuck yeah these bot swarms
they found what they found
uh in the ukraine they found like one of these like creepy shelves of phones it's
just phones oh i've seen
those but i didn't know they were running an ai i thought like people were
manually typing in messages
because i know they were doing that first i think both both i mean both things
are happening yeah like
you know it's a pr firm basically you know politicians have publicists too isn't
it wild
though that that's the best way to defeat america is to get people separate
from each other arguing with
with each other and lose all faith in the democratic process yeah sure all
faith in democracy lose all faith
powerful weapon man it's like it's amazing we dropped an atom bomb multiple
times on cities filled with
people the united states did that everyone knows that so our karma we've got
some up karma man
you know what i mean so so like that so the problem with these atom bombs
biggest problem with atom bomb
is i mean aside from the fact that it kills random people and is is horrible it
irradiates them it
irradiates the ground the buildings so you so there's no plundering to be had
if you you traditional
war you plunder whether you however you want to make it look you're plundering
if i nuke you i can no
longer plunder so this is why biological weapons pop like are desirable because
then it burns out the biome
in the area wait a little bit and then you can go plunder but even better than
that get into the
fucking minds of the people in the country that you want to invade and then
just change their minds so
that the country shifts into what you wanted that country to be now you didn't
even have to do anything
except they're yours they're believing in you and then in that the country
starts falling apart the cia
by the way this is one of the things they do they go into other countries they
cause like disturbances
and then it collapses i mean it's a classic weapon of war so anyway yeah i
obviously we might be the
entire united states and probably other countries might currently be irradiated
not by like obviously
radiation but by bad data created by artificial intelligence bots that have
been programmed to swarm
social media and give the impression that there was some like something
happening that wasn't even
happening at all