Mike Benz

And so the State Department, the Pentagon, NATO threw up their hands and said, we pumped $5 billion into Ukraine, and we still couldn't budge anyone living in the eastern flank, anyone in Crimea, to side with our propaganda over Russian propaganda.

And so we needed, this is part of the issue with winning through propaganda.

At a certain point,

you can't, it starts to backfire.

You can only turn your knob up so much on your own propaganda before people go, ah, that hurts my ears.

I don't trust this.

So this new tool had to be developed to turn down the opposition.

So there was no way to create a sort of robust political thought leadership to spread narratives, to circulate potentially damning or humiliating diplomatic incidents that can be exploited for political purposes.

We needed a censorship mechanism at the technological level, and we needed a censorship ecosystem of personnel who could back channel between the tech companies and the blob, you know, the diplomatic defense intelligence apparatus.

And so these were both developed effectively in tandem in 2014.

The Pentagon was already working on these AI censorship super weapons to stop ISIS.

This was a technique called natural language processing, which is this ability to basically scan the entire internet, all tweets, all Facebook posts, all YouTube videos, because everything we say on YouTube

since 2009 or whatnot, has gone into closed captioning at YouTube.

So there's a transcript where the AI can read that transcript and it can scan for keywords and they can do sentiment analysis to evaluate through essentially AI pre-crime analysis whether or not you support or oppose the thing you're talking about.

Or whether you're talking about something that's sensitive from NATO's perspective.

Some Ukrainian oligarch who's on CIA payroll does something embarrassing.

And Russian YouTube videos or Facebook posts or tweets are amplifying that.

Well, that can all be turned down.

so that nobody knows about the story because the AI is now reading it.

They developed that in the counterterrorism space, because if you recall, beginning in 2014 in the US, there was this threat of homegrown ISIS threats.