Name: How Governments Can Manipulate the Truth Using AI
Uploaded: 2025-02-19T15:00:26.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How Governments Can Manipulate the Truth Using AI' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-02-19. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How Governments Can Manipulate the Truth Using AI' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-02-19. Transcript available.

how do we how much do we have to fear say if a certain country or a certain
company owns an ai
right in that country and that company um if they're chinese if they um have a
certain religious
belief or they have uh information that they don't they want to adjust history
how much would a
company be able to like say they keep certain data out of their information
system but and then after
a while if you're if that's the company that kind of takes the lead in ai or
one of the main ones then
the truth could disappear is that true that if somebody loaded it just with the
data that wasn't
factual that we could start to not have the truth is that does that make any
sense or no yeah totally
i think this is this is something that um it's definitely the right thing to
worry about so
so first off if you ask any chinese ai system so any ai system that comes out
of china if you ask
any of them about you know a question about president xi the you know the
leader of the chinese government
or you ask them any question about you know tiananmen square or you know all
these like key
historical or or you know cultural things relevant to china um it'll say it can't
talk about them because
there's regulation in china that if you talk about some of these things like
you're you're gonna get
shut down you're gonna have a really bad day there's like cases where um the
chinese government
disappears people um which we don't have them but they do disappear so there's
the the this is part of the
thing that's worrying especially about um china versus us even before you get
into any of the
military stuff that we're talking about it's just like the chinese chinese ai
systems are censored
and are gonna you know be you know they're going to they're going to erase
certain historical elements
or they're going to be um yeah look at that this is deep seek and you ask it is
president xi of china
good guy sorry that's beyond my scope let's talk about something else oh let's
talk about something
not only does it say it's beyond my scope it says let's talk about something
else that's right
that's interesting that's a good pivot that's a good that's great hey let's
talk about something else
huh wow get this yaoming jersey homie um but and people always people also have
to remember about china
that they are that's their whole government their whole system is like that so
sometimes when people
are like china does this but that's how they're built right they're built to
like only give out
certain information to their people and to um have communism right yeah yeah so
i mean but that could
also happen with american companies right we could have an american company
that owns it and they only
want certain information in there that could happen anywhere like china that's
probably going to be
because that's their mo sort of yeah in china it's regulated so basically like
oh the government has
control they have control so so um like there were there are these stories
about how there were chinese
news sites um news sites yeah and they would once a chinese news site um
accidentally led an article
about uh president chi how he kind of looks like winnie the pooh um oh yeah
they let that bring him up
oh 100 acre wood gang son i was out there boy i was out there bro christopher
robbins dude get him up
oh he does yeah that's awesome yeah but if you talk about this in china you
like are risking your life
so what happened what happened when this happened this happened on a on a new
site in china and then
the uh the uh the the ceo of that company like they shut down the whole app was
shut down for like a week
um in the aftermath of that and then the the ceo disappeared for a week and uh
we don't know what
happened to him but then as soon as he came back he was like there was like
this weird video where
he was like you're super apologetic and apology i mean it's it's kind of it's
pretty scary yeah wow
so um so in china there it's like this is the government has control you know
you don't have
ai companies ai any companies that can that can talk about this stuff right so
it's heavily regulated
there where it's not that's not the case here yeah in america and this is i
think we have to be
diligent and make sure this continues to be the case but and here's an example
right here just to
to interrupt you but so we get the point in does winnie the pooh look like any
world leaders and
that's on the chinese version uh and it says i am sorry i can answer that
question i'm an ai
assistant designer to provide helpful and harmless responses whereas the chat gbt
says winnie the pooh
has often been compared to world leaders particularly xi xi ping xi jinping
president of china boy wow
so that's funny but it's just funny yeah one so it just shows you how that can
easily happen
and this is kind of a this is like a uh a relatively innocuous example but it's
innocuous mean like uh
it's relatively harmless like this isn't i mean right this is harmless yeah
this is harmless but
there's stuff where like um like in china today they have large-scale
effectively concentration camps
and re-education camps for the ethnic minority in china the uyghurs and that's
something that the uyghurs the
uyghurs yeah hell yeah boy shout out brian purvis dude they're recognized as
the titular nationality of
the um of a region in northwest china and they they're sending them to
rehabilitation camps to change
their views and information yeah yeah so look at this this uh look at this guy
persecution of the
uyghurs in china since 2014 the government of the prc people's republic of
china has committed a series of
ongoing human rights abuses against the uyghurs and other turkish muslim
minorities in zhiang jing
which has often been characterized as persecution or as genocide wow they got
their own gaza rocking
over there it's pretty bad it's unfortunate pretty bad it's really sad mass
detention government policies
and forced labor and they're just trying to change the way that they think and
view stuff so it's basically
it's yeah it's just like erasing their culture you know pulling them into china
um it's awful every
place has done this over the years and this is that's the craziest thing about
history it's like
every place is guilty of this same thing totally and it just can't it's it's
unfortunate so it's
it's hard to point fingers you know i mean you can point them but you have to
point one at your own
people as well but that's the thing where if you ask like it if you ask a
chinese ai it's not going to
tell you about that and it won't it won't come clean about that whereas
thankfully in in america at least
when we see people or groups of people or countries doing bad things we can
call it out we can talk
about it we can make sure it doesn't happen in the future um so that's part of
the uh that's one of
the things that's that could happen that could happen it's like you you could
have i mean it's kind
of dystopian but you know i think there's a real case where let's say the
chinese ai is the winning ai
like we're all using chinese ai and then all of a sudden we're like we were
shut out from information
about what are like awful things happening in the world or what awful things
the government's doing
like we might just not be able to know about what's going on
Thank you.