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During the past five weeks, three versions of this same video, using different AI voice tracts, have garnered over 12 million views on YouTube.. It is fake news that made its anonymous creator and YouTube a lot of advertising income.
by Richard L. Thornton, Architect & City Planner
In our previous article, The Americas Revealed discussed the fact that AI-produced videos on the History of the Americas are given top priority by YouTube’s algorithms, while educational videos by major institutions and legitimate professionals rarely get seen by the general public.
In my case, I have subscribed to several credible producers of videos on architectural history and the archaeology of the Americas, but nowadays YouTube does not even tell me when their new videos have been posted . . . as they are supposed to do. Instead, I repeatedly see junk videos on the Americas . . . full of junk advertising . . . and endless numbers of takes on the current political situation in North America.
The political dangers of fake news
During the past decade, the masses in the United States have increasingly been inclined to believe lies over the truth. I don’t know why, but it is certainly a major factor in the unhappiness and political turmoil within the United States today. Youtube’s continuing propensity to reward fake news with advertising revenue has been a key factor in this malaise.
I was supposed to be notified of a new BBC program on a recently discovered Native American village on the coast of British Columbia, which predates the Bering Sea land bridge between Siberia and North America. Also, I was supposed to be notified about a video, produced by the INAH in Mexico, on a Chontal Maya fortified trading post and terrace complex in a mountain gap between Chiapas and Oaxaca States. It strongly resembles the Track Rock Gap ruins in Georgia.
Instead yesterday, YouTube gave this video below first place priority on my computer screen. The key image on the video of endless rows of apples itself is fake . . . created by a virtual reality program similar to the one with which I create my fancy architectural renderings. That is just the beginning of the fraud.
If you have the time, take a look at this AI-produced video to understand the tricks of the trade. For all we know, the creator was some ex-patriot Russian computer jock in Estonia . . . making a living off of internet advertising, after fleeing Putin’s tyranny.
Mastery of a foreign language is no longer a barrier to such projects. I regularly use an AI-program to translate The Americas Revealed articles into Spanish, Swedish and French, because I can communicate in these three languages, but am not fluent.
Spoiler Alert! – The scientific experiment, described by this news documentary, took place in Greenvale County and was conducted by agronomists at Greenwood University. There is neither a Greenvale County nor a Greenwood University in North America!
Key features to look for in fake news
- No legitimate news organization is named as the program sponsor.
- No journalist is mentioned as the creator of the video.
- There are no conversational interviews with real people.
- The are few or no actual moving video scenes . . . just still photographs.
- The entire video consists of 5 – 10 second film clips from a variety of sources. Creators can getaway with showing copyrighted images and videos by limiting exposure to less than 12 seconds and labeling the film clip as “news.”
- Images and film clips somewhat related to the topic are interspersed with generic nature scenes.
What first caught my attention was that this video included many photographs of “scientists” working in very different laboratories and in different nations. The apple orchards pictured were in several distinctly different geographical regions of North America and Europe. The soil on which the apples were supposedly allowed to decompose were several different colors and had several different species of grasses growing them.
Also . . . large amounts of waste fruits are converted into ethane, for which the farmers and processors also get a hefty income tax deduction. “Clare” is described as walking through the Old West Farm 20 years later . . . but instead the AI program chose a view of an Asiatic woman walking through an oil-palm plantation in the tropics! LOL
Now . . . see if you can pick out the key giveaways of fake news!
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Thank you, because I would’ve just took them at their word on the Greenville I never would’ve double checked. Have you heard about the ground breaking discovery under that pyramid in Mexico they said with the new technology, they found structures that go to kilometers into the ground?
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Yep . . . that’s the fake Indigenous American history that we talked about in the previous article. Another recent one tells us that the buildings in Chichen Itza are interconnected by a man-made tunnel system to a massive natural cave.
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https://x.com/andrewbcollins/status/1902467159877403084?s=46
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I see what you mean. Below is what I posted on the page.
Click bait! A little moron joke.
North Carolina barren field? You have to be joking. You never heard of kudzu? Kudzu is endemic and spread by birds and animals. You cannot go anywhere in NC and not find it. It created its own nitrogen, will spread meters in one summer, and roots at joints. This is why democrats brought it in away back during the 30s. It loves barren soil.
What kind of fiction is this? Apple pulp is loaded with acid. Acid from fruit piled like that sterilizes soil, not helps it. It creates vinegar, something used to kill bacteria and seeds, to kill plants. And how did they fence out raccoons and possums? They climb. Deer can jump tall fences. Foxes and coyotes would burrow. Did they bury the fence at least a meter down? Razorbacks alone would have wrecked the fence. How many billions of fruit flies and other bugs would have been hatched there? North Carolina is hilly-to-steep mountains. Runoff from rainwater would have flushed the acid into streams where it would wipe out all life.
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According to my Google AI advisor – Kudzu was introduced to the United States from Japan in 1876 at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition as an ornamental plant It later was promoted as an inexpensive feed for dairy cows then later promoted by the US Soil and Water Conservation Service to prevent soil erosion in the 1930s and 1940s
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