“On Dhruv Rathee’s Video”, Great Bong, February 24, 2024:
“Dhruv Rathee, India’s premier Youtube content creator, recently posted a video titled “Is India Becoming A Dictatorship?” (The answer he provides is “Yes”). That video garnered 6 million views in a day, numbers a Shahrukh Khan movie trailer would be envious of. Now, I usually do not take it upon myself to react to videos being made online, but the sheer virality of this video and the “facts presented therein” require a counter, if for nothing else than one big reason.
As we move from a “search engine” world to a world dominated by generative AI, viral content, left without even a figleaf of a retort, will be consumed unchallenged by the Net-scrapers of the ChatGPTs and Geminis of the world. They will then become the new truth to be then built upon as a primary source.
The fact that Gemini referred to Modi as a fascist and not Xi Jinping or Zelenskyy (Trump was kept out of Gemini’s analysis) is because of the corpus of “high-trust” media referring to Modi as a fascist (thanks to 500 dollars-an-article pieces produced for New York Times and Washington Post and al Jazeera)…..”
Read the full article at Greatbong.net
