"Facts that happen to be true" what kind of orwellian speak is this?
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2026
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"facts that happen to be true" aka facts
Wait. So china pointed out why data centers are bad and were right about it and people agreed?
That's a really weird ass "covert campaign".
Damn the evil CCCCP and their nefarious plot to *checks notes* tell the truth
The best propaganda is always the truth.
Genuinely why I hate anti-america/anti-capitalism propaganda based off lies. You don't need to lie when just telling the truth is damning. The lies just undermine everything when they're exposed, makes people question even the facts.
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The best propaganda is always the truth.
When they shut down the RT America studio under the foreign agents law and direct TV intervention, they did interviews with the ex-RT dissident-esq reporters who were working there. I don't remember who, and who was interviewing, so take this with a grain of salt. When they were asked on the lines of how they felt working for Russian propaganda and information campaign. They said along the lines of that of all the networks they had worked on, they were never felt as free as when they worked on RT, and they were quite open that it was all part of bringing up narratives that would disrupt the American mainstream ones and create political disruption and doubt. Their handlers in Moscow knew that the best way to achieve this was just to give them reach and mostly uncensored platform and let them do mostly whatever they want, because they knew that just bringing out the truth was the most damaging thing to American establishment.
they were never felt as free as when they worked on RT
I assume these reporters were not the ones reporting on the state of russia
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~~mis~~information campaign
Aka "News"
OpenAI has published a report
Into the trash it goes.
Free toilet paper 😃😃
Don't use that toilet paper, it's bad for you.
From trash to trash, dust to dust
Garbage in, garbage out
So... So they ran an information campaign?
They educated us for free
Well, someone has to.
Sigh... no, they don't actually.
Anyone saying anything true about the american tech industry, or about anything at all, could be a secret asset in the employ of the Chinese government. They can't be trusted.
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Those evil Chinese propagandists! How dare they… *flips through notes* tell the truth!?
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"Facts that happened to be true"
Please, shut the fuck up. Fucking shut the fuck up. I am at the end of my wits with this place.
As opposed to, what, facts that aren't true? Those aren't facts at all.
"Alternative facts"
As opposed to just calling them facts because they are.
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Another beacon of truth from the company of Sam Altman, known for his honesty and forthrightness
"These dirty commies! Making everyone woke with their factually correct propaganda! They just want lil ol me to not have my american dream!"
The real story is not about Chines influence on data center opinion.
Its openai reading conversations of their customers.
I mean we all already assumed they do before but this is so blatend, it smells like manufactured consent. You need to go from “suspect it happens” to “its normal to be like this”
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I don't think China cares about US that much ngl.
Honestly I wouldn't doubt that they do, supposedly leaders both ours and theirs see us as being in a sort of cold war space race style AI race, and I guess that effectively means we are.
But I for one didn't need their campaign to hate what I can see for myself is an issue, murderbots, surveillance, and dumbing down people further have always been things that I think are "bad."
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I mean, in the context of AI development itself, there's the possible angle that China/Chinese AI companies would do this to attempt to slow down American based AI development in an effort to surpass them, but...yeah seems pretty goofy tbh.
They're clearly trying to claw at anything to redirect attention from data centers fucking everyone over.
China already won the game. Their models are on par with Americans and much cheaper.
We can't compete based even just on energy costs.
I use deepseek API and honestly I just don't care about token costs cuz it's so cheap.
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Their proof is a couple accounts in China asked the chatbot how to convince Americans to not want datacenters in their backyard...
If I asked a chatbot how to convince someone to not like getting punched in the dick, them not wanting to get punched in the dick doesn't mean there's a grand conspiracy and that's why Bob got mad after being punched in the dick.
Bob didn't need anyone to tell him not to like getting punched in the dick to have that response.
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Yeah this is why everyone hates sam altman and not because he's just going around saying that AI companies are worth more than the entirety of planet earth combined.
Ugh, people with those pesky facts, very inconvenient! /s
PRC ain't good but this is absurd. Fuck ClosedAI
They asked ChatGPT about how to influence Americans views on AI, apparently.
Sure thing.
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Thanks China
So we wre listening to OpenAI on this one? Sure prove any of this you lying sack of shit Sam Altman. All these pyschos running companies.
#stoplisteningtoceos
OpenAI still acts like there are absolutely none Chinese LLM. Sounds more like a fever dream. I wonder if they also did the exact checks on American user accounts and I am quite certain you will also see hundreds of Americans prompting the same thing.
Can I just say that the fact openai just reads our chats....
It is just that I feel like the general public does not fully comprehend it
Fun Fact: the American Govt. has okay'ed giving China GPU's now that they get a cut of the profits. 🙄
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I’m sure it was China and not the fact that AI is causing layoffs, increased prices, and harm to our communities.
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