I just watched a video on YouTube about a guy who bought a van and fixed it up with the purpose of living in it full-time.
He had a job, a professional career, wasn't facing homelessness, he just wanted to save some money on rent. I mean minus the cost of the vehicle, insurance, phone, internet, and upkeep, your main expenses will be food and fuel.
It's smart. I'd love to do it myself, but it's currently not possible. Kind of like sailing. I would love to live on a sailboat, like full-time and forever, but it just isn't possible for me right now.
Anyway, this guy, these videos about people living in vans and living on boats, being happy and free, well it occurred to me while watching this video, at the end I wondered if this could be an artificially generated video. Like I wasn't just speculating or hypothesizing, I was making a real time observation, that there were certain tells in this dudes appearance and behavior that suggested that it could be artificially generated.
Like this is how the propaganda works: it works best when you form an emotional connection. You feel like you like this person, you like the way they are living, and you feel you are on a compatible wavelength, and because of this connection, you are more likely to be receptive to anything else they say. But what if they are intentionally feeding you bullshit? Not the part about living in a van or a boat, but when they make a comment about something else, anything, their perspective on the world, well that could be the whole point of the video, to insert an idea that you will be sympathetic to.
The whole catch though is that what if this isn't even a real person, or even a paid actor, but a robot, a commercial, a Hollywood prop, where everything in it is artificial and fake, and the only reason why it's there is to misguide you and to misdirect you and to sell you something and to implant some idea in your head.
YouTubers and podcasters, how many of them are fake, and how many of them are real?
Like the biggest thing I'm hearing about, and also experiencing firsthand is that AI is a big let down, that it's not as good as previously claimed, that it's all a bunch of hype, and the truth is it makes a lot of mistakes, what they call "hallucinating" in the AI world, where it will just completely invent a story and present it as if it were factually true, which could be a major problem when dealing with medical and technological matters, or in the management of technological systems like airplane navigation systems and submarines, where truth and accuracy is of paramount importance.
But what if that is the plan? What if the AI malfunction is part of a plan, like a computer virus intentionally implemented by actors wishing death and destruction to all who execute the software. And what if the perception of broken AI is also part of the plan? That it's broken by design and they want you to know it.
And what if there's another version that isn't broken, in the sense that it does exactly what its programmed to do.
What if the AI is so advanced that when you see it personified in human form, whether that be CGI, or an actual materialized humanoid robot, and it is so advanced that you cannot tell whether what you are seeing, and interacting with and streaming on YouTube, is human or AI. And I'm thinking AI is completely taking over all digital content, not just the written word, but also videos and podcasts. It's being implemented with the purpose of gaining a monopoly over the control of information, and maximizing profits by taking over systems previously occupied by humans.
It's getting to the point that when you go on YouTube and watch any show, whether it's a video about living in a van or living on a sailboat or hiking across country and living in the woods, there's a good chance some of these people you watch might actually be AI. I mean I'm sure they all aren't, but I think some of them could be, and as we move forward into the future this number will likely increase exponentially.
Especially the commercials. I've been watching streaming TV for at least ten years, and I've been noticing a major increase in new commercials lately, with people that look just a little too perfect, with perfect smiles and shiny eyes that shout "YES, I'm a slave and you can be too!"
It's a form of subtle brainwashing.
Certainly if the technology existed to do this, it would be done. Because if you get a photogenic actor, who flawlessly reads their lines, who never asks questions, and never gets paid, and they attract an audience that generates a good income, well I guess the psychopaths can't help themselves.
You don't want to be in a situation where you don't know if the people influencing your perception of reality are real or bots. It's not a good place to be in, it's extremely shady, and it's not a good world to advocate participating in.

