How AI fakes shape the Iran war
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What impact did the Iran war videos have on social media?
Americans can't get enough war coverage. In the days leading up to the February 28th attack, Fox News registered 35% more viewers than CNN and MSNOW combined. But there is one place to ignore for honest and factual coverage. Can you guess what it is? Within minutes after the news of the attack, Elon Musk's ex-users were literally plastering phony war videos. AI-generated slop was everywhere, and it still is. And so are old videos labeled as new. One user posted a fake clip of a rocket strike taken directly from a video game. Four and a half million watched, believing it to be true. And virtually every account pushing this garbage has a paid blue checkmark, meaning the X algorithm boosted it. With war news, stop, wait, verify, and then don't share it.
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How did Elon Musk's X platform contribute to misinformation?
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What types of AI-generated content were shared during the attack?
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Because they controlled the majority of the trillions and trillions of dollars there. I probably could guess them. Okay, guess. Apple. Okay. Google.
How can we verify the authenticity of war news?
Or Alphabet, whatever it's called. Meta. Formerly Facebook. That's three. You're moving your fingers too fast, and you're ruining my count. Uh, NVIDIA. Yes. The chip maker. Right. Uh, Tesla. Yeah. The automobile company and the other two magnificent seven there. I named them all. Well, now they are on the, they call them the fab four. Who'd I forget? Apple. I forgot Apple. Apple's gone by the way. It's gone. Out of the magnificent seven because they're not market leaders anymore because their AI works so good. No, it doesn't. Okay. It sucks so bad. But didn't they go out and hire Google to do their AI for them? It's not there yet. But they're going to be paying Google like a billion dollars. That's all. That's jump change.
Tesla, they got too many cars in the parking lot. Nobody's buying them. Especially the Cybertruck. Let's see. Who else is? Oh, Meta. The whole Metaverse. Gone. $70 billion. Yeah, that's a lot of money. But still, Facebook leads the way, right? When it comes to... But they're not really innovating. They're not leading. They're not leading. All right. So who you have left is Microsoft, Amazon, Google. I forgot Microsoft. You forgot Microsoft. So Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and NVIDIA. Those are the fab four. And Microsoft was OG. Like that was the first tech company that people started talking about. And you realize how big they were. And they're still there. Still hanging in. Clippy. I don't even know one product they sell other than Windows.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What impact did the Iran war videos have on social media?
0:00–0:59
2
How did Elon Musk's X platform contribute to misinformation?
0:59–1:25
3
What types of AI-generated content were shared during the attack?
1:25–2:26
4
How can we verify the authenticity of war news?
2:26–5:21
5
What is the significance of the 'Magnificent Seven' tech companies?
5:21–6:43