A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat

https://www.wired.com/story/super-pac-backed-by-openai-and-palantir-is-paying-tiktok-influencers-to-fear-monger-about-china/

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TachyonTele@piefed.social · 45 pts · 59d (4 replies)

ALL ai is a threat the way the rich bros are shoving it into anything. Idgaf what country its from.

Malyca@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 59d (3 replies)

I'm half convinced to trust China more than my own country.

GreenBeard@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 58d

Everyone in AI is lying to you. About what is debatable. Don't trust AI from anyone.

TachyonTele@piefed.social · 3 pts · 59d

Haha i wouldn't go that far

dickalan@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 59d

yeah I almost exclusively used DeepSeek

Arancello@aussie.zone · 19 pts · 59d (1 reply)

frankly id trust chinese about equally to usa barrons

Doomsider@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 58d

Boy do I have a funny story to tell you.

subverted_per@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 59d (4 replies)

Why is Chinese ai more of a threat? Is the Chinese ai causing mass layoffs at American companies? Is China building ai data centers in our neighborhoods? Is Chinese ai being corn holed into every piece of software im using and making it worse by every metric?

TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 59d (2 replies)

Because it's substantially cheaper and more efficient and thus threatens the wealth and power of the western tech-lord class.

Flower@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 59d

Yeah, USA tech bros went all-in on AI so the last thing they can use right now it's China showing they have a better hand.

Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 58d

Malyca@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 59d

Because trust me bro

SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org · 8 pts · 59d

Do they also pay to frame water as wet?

Seimhe@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 59d (1 reply)

I have this bookmarked from March 2025. I've yet to finish it, but wonder if it's biased https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclusive/why-deepseek-is-so-dangerous/

Malyca@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 59d

Maybe a smidge

TwinTitans@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 59d (1 reply)

As big a threat as the Americans? Probably not.

naught101@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 59d

Chinese AI is a threat in the sense that unlike the US, China is refusing to barrel head-long into a market bubble collapse that will trigger a second great depression.

Come the fuck on, China, keep up!

AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 59d

Okay but why does it have to be Chinese genAI when it could be... and OpenAI is teaming up to spout racism while also spreading the facist machine.

I may not like the Chinese government, but even I know genAIon its own, regardless of who it comes from, is the real issue.