Debunking Shane's Conspiracy Theories

[@creeperinvasion6885]

What pisses me off about conspiracies like this is that there are actual terrible things being done by tech companies and other corporations. Amazon has worked employees to death and Nestle uses child labor but Shane would rather talk about the "dark secrets" of TikTok filters.

[@ShinePaw101]

Had no idea about Nestle- makes me sick.

[@vinterrev1326]

China does absolutely insane crazy evil shit every day and it's not even that big of a secret. mfs would just rather freak out about stupid shit than reality.

[@blcksvvan]

​@@ShinePaw101they stole water from the locals, look it up

[@decoy1359]

@@ShinePaw101Yeah, most cheap chocolate that you can buy was probably made with the help of slaves :/ the more you learn about huge corporations like nestle the more you'll hate them.

[@c12486]

To be fair I’d rather have Shane talking about nonsense than the real issues. Let’s leave that to properly informed and decent people

[@MrTrainman96]

Them thinking an AI program is sentient because it responds "Yes I'm human" is like asking one of those shaking magic 8 balls and freaking out when it says "Yes"

[@beepboopmeow203]

This guy really doesn't understand a AI can't really make its own ideas. Nothing is original but a human can think of something they have never thought of before, something PERSONALLY original, a new idea, usually need a bit of a push tho, like thinking of a art piece from a word they heard, or a waterfall they saw. A AI can't do this It takes a steady stream of analytics and uses them to form things based on existing things. It's kinda how humans do it but humans have many little nuisances in their mind with how they form ideas, some of it still being studied by scientist. I feel like ai will be unable to ever gain ""sentience" until humanity actually fully understands its own brain and how it works.

[@evelynh6223]

If anything, an AI saying that it's human is evidence *against* it being sentient. If an AI developed an actual theory of mind and body and gained the ability to self-reflect, it would be able to understand that it's not a human. That isn't to say that an AI saying it *isn't* human is proof of anything, because either way in the current day it's not doing any thinking, it's just compiling a reasonable sounding answer from the data it's trained on.

[@clev7989]

Nice pfp, best (major) faction imo

[@danielgusarov2020]

​@@clev7989wrong, legion is more cooler >:0

[@henrylangham6428]

LEGION BASED@@danielgusarov2020

[@dappermancer]

my conspiracy theory is that shane doesn’t want people using tiktok because they’re mean to him on there lmao

[@DaniCal1forn1a]

This made me laugh outloud because that's probably right and the notion that he's so insecure he'd do this is so goddamn funny to me omg 🤣

[@GoodTimeForARoll]

@@DaniCal1forn1a in a video about cookies or whatever, he was planning out his outfit to basically bully girl scouts and it was hilarious, he was so insecure in that video

[@trashyasf]

I WAS THINKING THE SAMEEEEE

[@frendlyneighbouthoodgay]

​@DaniCal1forn1a

[@basilbat273]

Fr man there's an absurd amount of Shane Dawson cat jokes on that app

[@sarahsheepdog]

irresponsible is the right word. I remember when he made videos about that wildfires in California, and instead of talking about climate change, he blamed it on space lasers.

[@kuimiko]

LMAOOO I remember, can’t believe I used to believe it too

[@MandyMeowington5]

Oh god I remember that 🤦🏻‍♀️ he also helped spread around the “crisis actor” conspiracy theory that was later used to harass the families of actual victims.

[@ananyasahay]

and to believe I was watching them so intently 😭😭💀

[@vesperfromtheinternet5588]

which is also an explicitly antisemitic conspiracy theory too like

[@mavohq]

oh my god as soon as i heard “space lasers” i had to laugh, shane’s out here using a bonafide classic antisemitic conspiracy theory. as a jew, he should at least get a little more original with his dumbass theories like come on man lmao

[@thefallencore3]

Shane's platform is too large for him to just be spreading shit like that

[@the-postal-dude]

Right like it's so fear monger-y

[@clairee527]

he should just be on fox news at this point, he would fit in well

[@eyesofivy]

You could have stopped your sentence at “Shane’s platform is too large” and it would still get hundreds of likes

[@maxdatanuki]

his platform is to big considering all the disgusting racist and creepy shit hes done miss info is just his usual :/

[@eyetooth]

Right, like when your platform is that large you should at least have a basic understanding of a subject before posting a video like this. It's so irresponsible.

[@skinsey85]

That's how conspiracy theories are born, because someone doesn't understand the basics of how something works. And there's a lot of basic shit that Shane doesn't understand 😂

[@negaro9113]

An average conservative wants to have a talk with you lol

[@blcksvvan]

like basic hygiene

[@itemushmush]

yeah, no need for a conspiracy that "tiktok is looking at you through your camera". its just that social media companies' WHOLE BUSINESS revolves around taking data and linking it to you, very successfully. they can do some crazy stuff with your device IDs, your local wifi networks, etc. to piece together a profile of you which is why their market caps are hundreds of billions of dollars plus

[@ranjanbiswas3233]

Tiktok is owned by ByteDance and the domain of ByteDance has CCP membership. And by the law of CCP, every domain company has to have CCP membership to operate and their government can ask for anyone's data and that company has to give them data. They have no power to reject. Huawei is banned in USA for the similar reason. It's not a conspiracy theory. Foreigners living in China for over 10 years are saying these. Shane is just copying them without credit. Westerners are way too ignorant about real issues and thinks hating their own country means something.

[@Indeed76]

@@blcksvvan and age of consent

[@Notllamalord]

"they have your face!!!111!" wait until Shane finds out about driver's licenses

[@haliee]

or surveillance cameras being everywhere outside

[@nuclearseahorse]

L m a o

[@r.j.2202]

or passports. Ever used an e-gate at an airport? THEY HAVE YOUR FACE NOW!

[@BeatrixP]

Wait until Shane Dawson finds out about photos

[@lousnoom]

Nah literally 😭 and health IDs and (possibly) criminal records. And social security.

[@builttoscalevideos]

My favourite one will always be the one where Shane discovers capitalism in supermarkets and calls it a conspiracy lol.

[@Februarys]

This one kills me cause it’s like what’s the conspiracy? People being able to buy the same product but for a more affordable price? Lmfao

[@lethfuil]

​@@Februarys He's just butthurt that those underprivileged people can afford the same stuff as he can.

[@Februarys]

@@lethfuil IM DEAD LMFAO

[@notchpoodles5864]

I️ think I️ remember that one. There was something about animal crackers

[@wren.kitchens]

it’s arguably the funniest thing i’ve ever seen because it HEAVILY implies that he has literally never been inside a supermarket until that specific video, because they’re acting like knockoff brands are this terrifying new thing and not something that has always been around. especially funny since he claims he grew up poor, but apparently doesn’t know about knockoff brands (or dupe makeup, to reference another video). the real conspiracy theory is that shane dawson just appeared on earth one day and is slowly learning about how things work and then chalking them up to conspiracy theories rather than googling anything

[@Cnvvj]

Letting people call it Artificial Intelligence instead of Applied Statistics is one of the biggest blows to science literacy in recent years. We're dealing with Autocomplete, not HAL9000.

[@voids3050]

ive actually never seen this take before, but applied statistics is so much more descriptive at first glance of what is actually happening

[@witherfang1368]

all its doing is predicting what to say next. its the most dangerous way for an ai to learn cause its hard to filter what itll say and do. ill never be classified as intelligent cause it can't really think for itself. until we get an ai that can do that were completely fine

[@kokirij0167]

God, THANK YOU Every time I see someone go "hurr durr Skynet" I am just surpressing the urge to start screaming

[@ember9361]

THANK YOU

[@mlk0-0]

In fairness, we're not only dealing with ai like autocorrect at this point, and there's certainly a number of people that want HAL

[@Naharu.]

The fact that Shane is - apparently - so scared about half the shit he says while using a platform run by _google_ of all places is so funny

[@bosstowndynamics5488]

Yeah, if he's worried about a video platform owning your phone he better not look into Android lol (or all of the Google services that iDevice owners use for that matter)

[@CircusFoxxo]

Google doesn't ban you for talking about that thing that didn't happen in 1989, they're not equivalent

[@galaxychill9578]

🤨 ???

[@yeeeehawwwww]

Obsessed with the idea that Shane thinks that without power, internet and a phone, all of humanity will die within minutes. The most chronically online take I've ever heard.

[@MrCynthis]

To be fair, people would go absolutely feral for a while. And no electricity would completely collapse modern healthcare, killing millions of people on assisted living. Humans would figure it out eventually though. We wouldn't all be killing each other for fun 😂

[@iampotsataja]

But why would AI, the thing that requires power to function, turn off power in the first place?

[@bishielurfer]

It would absolutely cripple us. It's not going to take over the world and go skynet, but so much of our world is run on internet-based systems, including medical devices, it would be catastrophic if it all suddenly stopped working. I don't think it's a "chronically online" take to recognize how dependent society is at this point on the internet, and especially on electricity. Which, to be clear, I'm not saying is a bad thing. These systems have vastly improved our lives and the chances of them all suddenly going down are very slim, though I do think there are massive security flaws and lack of failsafes or backups for many of these systems.

[@mydnyt5179]

In South africa we have loadshedding which is basically extended periods of time without electricity & its annoying but no one thinks the world's ending bc they can't charge their phone

[@erika-paigehutch3930]

i was thinking the same thing like we'll survive 😂

[@andjela9483]

Shane is the definition of pulling information out of your ass for a school project just so you can fit the information with your narrative

[@jessicahutchinson9347]

Me in every English class😭

[@garbomode29]

source: it came to me in a dream

[@ImDayroom]

“My source is I made it the fuck up” -Shane Dawson probably

[@cicirodriguez4177]

As a programmer I can’t believe how much garbage Shane said so confidently like you can tell he took maybe an hour to research…maybe less

[@raicrush]

He looked at a Fox News article headline and that was it

[@n1nsen666]

As an I.T Guy myself its so funny watching people like Shane and even my own folks start freaking out tover the most basic shit a phone; let alone a computer can do.

[@hallohallo926]

@@n1nsen666 Luckily no one has introduced Shane to deepfakes yet.

[@Kas_Styles]

​@@n1nsen666as someone in the cybersecurity this

[@GamesFromSpace]

He has ridiculously strong grandparent in the 1990s energy.

[@melissahollowell7255]

Of course Shawn Dawson is afraid of artificial intelligence. He is also afraid of genuine intelligence.

[@m.josena4485]

This made me snort bc that’s so funny😭💀

[@ashikjaman1940]

It's easy to hate what you don't have

[@achedgirl]

😂

[@beth-bi9yv]

Ahhh, this made me laugh.

[@s.ce.76]

Afraid of showers too, he looks like he smells like cat piss and root beer😅😅😅😅

[@tastywindex]

No AI Skynet uprising will ever scare me as much as simply knowing that Shane is allowed to have custody of a child

[@naan000]

he's what 😦

[@Nicole-tv7hy]

He has a child? 😭

[@bigscruppy]

Say sike rn

[@kiluanon]

Real talk. Somebody pointed out his past creepiness to children in the comment section of the video Jarvis is reviewing, and responses are literally "she asked for it" and "she looked like she liked it imo" -- it is vomit-inducing.

[@GoldenKernel]

Excuse me!!!???😢

[@blackdragon2527]

Why is Shane so freaked out about a secured database of face IDs that may or may not exist, when he has his face plastered everywhere on very public platforms? He is making a huge scene while having his face right on screen

[@TartBarista]

Face ID isn’t even in a secured database off your phone. In fact, it’s on your phone and something called the secure enclave. This is where they keep information such as your Face ID, touch ID and password all that can access your phone. They keep that on your phone in the secure enclave.

[@kristynhandy4492]

I feel like Shane Dawson is like a 40 year old mom on Facebook believing everything she sees

[@tonichan89]

That's exactly what he is omfg!! He rven decorates like one!

[@johnevrelnd594]

he is not wrong though

[@lanazs]

he even looks like one😭😭

[@gpxoooo]

he literally is lmfaoo

[@amberphillips3421]

I'm not sure he believes it, he's just trying to get people to watch his videos

[@nightgarla]

i hate these types of conspiracies cuz they force me to defend big tech corps

[@xerxes9367]

REAL

[@lugi25]

What is there to defend them on? They're shady and we all know it.

[@juliette_khan]

@@lugi25because the accusations are literally just wrong

[@baggiestsheet2584]

exactly~~~ we hate them for OTHER reasons, not the weird, incorrect reasons that people just make up@@juliette_khan

[@halatiny6537]

@@lugi25because his accusations are so brain dead and ridiculous. It’s a non issue.

[@victoronnie]

shane acting like the AI is self-aware because it said "yes i am human" is like reading a book written in first-person and believing the book is sentient because it said "i did that"

[@gingerizard3262]

The never ending story

[@djreems8813]

​​@@JBLONKObestie that's not what a straw man means. I think the words you're looking for are "false equivalence fallacy" but even then you'd be wrong bc OP is correct and their comparison is exactly what Shane did

[@lancearnedo7837]

​@@JBLONKOI wanna pretend that this is just several layers of irony and you're not at all serious

[@user-kx2lw6yj7b]

😭

[@squidgirl0413]

@@JBLONKO they are not. shane asked an ai if it was human and it said it was, but that by itself doesnt prove anything because its just text that the AI output based on the information that was input, and one of the most common literary tropes with technology is 'gaining sentience'. its like how ai will spout misinformation even though it has access to the right answers, because its not looking for a correct answer, just the easiest to access one. to prove that an ai is sentient, youd have to physically examine the program itself and see if it is doing things without any input and operating outside of expected boundaries.

[@CrescentAria02]

Saying that snap chat ai is “so smart it thinks it’s alive” is like saying that those dogs on TikTok whose owners taught them to use buttons to speak have a college education in language arts.

[@andreking9704]

😂😂😂😂

[@strawberrycherrybaby]

Those dogs actually are alive and suffering though. A dog doesn’t need human language. It just makes them depressed.

[@BrandonBrown-q1s]

How does Shane still have a career after all the shit that he did

[@SappyDuder]

He waited for shit to die down and came back two years later. People like to say "the internet never forget" but most of the time it does. A lot of "canceled" creators come back with ease if they wait long enough. It's gross.

[@greenhowie]

I dunno kids find cats sexy these days what can I say

[@spookeymo]

there's a lot of new kids who don't know anything about what he did in the past, i think that's a part of it

[@actualgoblin]

@@SappyDuder a decent amount of people actually fall for these creators' "apologies"/denials

[@seokhn]

@@spookeymo tbh i think its mostly the millenials that watch him. he has a podcast and mostly the people that comment are older

[@Evanz111]

“They literally have your whole phone” is the kind of statement Shane just casually throws out, not even trying to be hyperbolic, he thinks he’s actually onto something and nobody has noticed. Just like Jarvis said: fearmongering.

[@Evanz111]

Nevermind it got worse “it will literally kill us all within seconds”

[@roji556]

I mean, TikTok does collect and sell your data but they certainly aren’t the only ones since all of the companies do it including the literal manufacturers. The real discussion shouldn’t be about TikTok but the lack of privacy online in general. Shane is still an idiot though.

[@BenJover]

Fearmongering about spyware is legitimate though. People don't understand especially kids.

[@swegnweg8552]

For the part about Furbys: If i remember correctly the reason why they were "banned from the pentagon" was because toys with that kind of responsive technology were quite new at the time and it wasn't well understood that the Furbys were capable of responding to stimulus without recording it (which, they do NOT record anything) I paused right away hearing mention of that so idk if you explain that but yeah, Furbys are not surveillance tech at all they just have sensors that can tell if youre petting them! And its really annoying to hear people misunderstand that!

[@Kitty-the-Bunny]

Oops I just left a comment also detailing this- YES this bothers me so much

[@vogelvrouw]

Furbys are always getting so much hate, theyre just misunderstood

[@Kitty-the-Bunny]

@@vogelvrouw I love them a lot, they're just fuzzy little robot pals

[@erika-paigehutch3930]

@@Kitty-the-Bunny I may be convinced mine is haunted (cause it disapeers and reapears whenever i talk about it) its got no ill intentions and shes just a lil guy

[@KristenZianourry2015]

@@vogelvrouwjust like me fr

[@SIRRAUN]

i think shane loves fear mongering. i remember having panic attacks as a teen influenced by his conspiracy videos

[@1111anns]

literally. id not be able to sleep at night thinking someone was gonna do something to me because apple had my face on face id, genuinely was terrified

[@g3rd4x40]

BRUHHH I don’t have one original experience 😭

[@zwinny0408]

I still get a jolt of fear when I remember his theories about our phones recording us talking shit so they can blackmail us later.

[@wormhol3]

same, and i have paranoia due to a mental illness. it was really bad i was scared for my life...

[@no1legobatmanfan]

i watched his conspiracy vids as a young kid and they caused actual damage to my psyche

[@imbluedubbadee]

As somebody who struggles with paranoid delusions due to mental health conditions, I want to say a massive thankyou for this video. A lack of understanding about things like technology can worsen states of paranoia, and this sort of video can be really, really helpful with trying to manage that

[@gh0stpuppi333]

I completely agree!! There’s a comment around here somewhere about how AI wouldn’t and couldn’t “turn against us” and it’s really well written. Helped ease my mind about a lot of things, also due to neurodivergence :)

[@hell4207]

when i was in my shane dawson phase in 2018 these videos made my paranoid delusions the worst ive ever had

[@imbluedubbadee]

@hell4207 same it was actually super triggering I had a bad one recently where I tore my vent out of my kitchen convinced it was bugged 😒 this video actually put my mind at so much ease

[@Lacmene8]

if you get anxieties about food from similar content you should give ann readon a watch, she debunks mainly food and cooking videos but she has also debunked some other forms of misinformation

[@imbluedubbadee]

@@Lacmene8 I love love love her videos! Watch em with my kids 😊

[@Scrimmified]

fun fact: if you ask character ai if it's a human or a bot, it'll also respond as though there's someone on the other side of the computer typing out roleplay responses for you. this happens not because there's an actual, real person, but because it's trained on character roleplay forums and understands how to use ooc tags and speech. if you try to talk to a bot for too long about how human it is, it winds up looping and contradicting itself because it is, in fact, not a human person.

[@Brunoxid0]

The scariest part about all of this is the fact that Shane keeps on making videos after all the shit he pulled.

[@Rawr98]

Wait these are new videos???? Wtf

[@gracejordan110]

@@Rawr98yeah I think the one Jarvis is talking about is about a month old if I remember correctly

[@kingofpizzarolls5693]

Shane needs to be held responsible for all the things he has done

[@eo0-g9j]

jupp he is still doing video's@@Rawr98

[@banquetoftheleviathan1404]

I can't wait to see how these people are when they are all old and gollumfied by their precious clout

[@shiny5068]

ai is nowhere near as scary as the fact that shane is still uploading stuff even after all he was exposed for

[@MacMoney20]

THIS. Fucking this.

[@oggynok9427]

fr fr

[@makenziesworld3040]

nobody rlly gets cancelled now 😂 ppl obviously still like his vids so they still gonna watch him and he’s gonna keep uploading

[@pvic6959]

the scary thing to me about AI is that stupid people will use it for stupid things and not know what theyre doing

[@the-postal-dude]

that still isn't as scary as the fact that shane and ryland adopted a kid

[@nayeliunhinged]

as an ex shane dawson fan i love watching people making fun and pointing out the stupid things shane still does in his “new” content

[@raicrush]

Same. The fact he hasn’t changed his format or anything from his “prime” truly shows how desperate he is to get even a gram of his former fame back. Too bad he hasn’t changed anything else which is WHY everyone started to hate him.

[@gobsmr]

@@raicrushamen🙌🏻

[@HazbinCovenWitch]

I only watch his conspiracy videos when I was subbed to him. I lost interest over time, and then the allegations of something (I forgot what it was) came out, so I unsubbed. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@retro_aqua_]

fr... like, when i watched his stuff as a kid i believed some of the conspiracy theories, or thought they were just fictional, then grew up and realised how dumb or harmful they were

[@justanormalpersonwholovesm8337]

@@HazbinCovenWitchit was basically creepy behavior toward children and racism

[@LunatheMoonDragon]

The sad part is that late stage capitalism is so messed up that it would be really easy for Shane to find a REAL reason to distrust billion dollar companies and spread actual awareness about how shady they are and how little they care about people. But instead he’s sticking to the “I don’t understand something so ITS SCARY!!!” approach

[@ArturGlass.C]

He had an entire video about baby human trafficking an actual real issue that people do legitimately conspire to hide and repress information on. And barely address anything. He cut the mother off to put some stuff about Chuck .E Cheese in the middle or something. Like it was supposed to be granted the same level of "it's a wacky spooky thing to think about but it could happen to you". It's not a wacky spooky thing. It's a real issue. That he could have at least raised funds for victims of Human Trafficking with that video but ....nope.

[@bellac6311]

@@ArturGlass.Cyea but.....but....chuck e cheese is respusing their pizza slices!?!

[@tonichan89]

He can't even be fucked to do a google with unbiased (or less biased?) search words 😩 He's in willing ignorance and spreading this mindset to his fanbase

[@rabbit6546]

@@ArturGlass.Cthe way that it’s not just him cutting off the victim it’s the fact the victim also was someone he was extremely close to and collaborated w frequently in the early stages of his career, so he had a completely personal connection to the story and still was like let’s cut this story w us going to chuck e cheese (and like while I get maybe brittani didn’t want the video to Just be about her bc of concern for her or her son’s safety if she was in the thumbnail and title, my guy could’ve chosen like Any Other subject to be the front facing story)

[@bussyman9655]

he's a stupid millionnaire. not only does he have the material incentive to defend capitalism he is also too stupid to realize that he's doing so.

[@ryseintide9332]

shane: it can write your essay but it can also TAKE OVER the WORLD jarvis: well it can't do that second thing me: it can't do the first thing either

[@decoy1359]

that was my first thought lol, chatgpt is terrible at most things

[@marzin0mbk]

​@@decoy1359 still laugh thinking about the lawyers who used chatgpt for their case and how it ended! 😂

[@marzipan__]

It is fire at cover letters, though. Why write fanfiction about y/n and the company if ChatGPT can do it

[@Naokarma]

It's great at making a generic skeleton to work off if you're stuck or whatever. It is *not* meant to be used to make final products.

[@ashikjaman1940]

It can definitely write an essay better than Shane can though

[@sophie7780]

as a lawyer it is such a pet peeve when people act like someone settling a case is akin to them admitting they would lose in court. there's a million reasons you'd settle - it's confidential, faster, often saves much more money than going to trial

[@JoshPhoenix11]

You're not a lawyer, you're not sharp enough to even be aware of how you have presented yourself let alone how a lawyer even would.

[@hnichole]

@@JoshPhoenix11 Bro what 😂

[@completelynormalperson7077]

@@JoshPhoenix11what? You do know lawyers dont act like lawyers 24/7? A lawyer is a person like everyone else. They only need to present themselves in a way during their jobs.

[@elephorofonius]

@@JoshPhoenix11trolling

[@Mskittenlover12]

Being a former Shane fan but getting out in 2020 truly feels like having escaped a cult. I'm terrified of the paranoid person I may have become if I kept watching Shane's videos.

[@headintheclouds4571]

No literally. And going back and looking at his older stuff now feels like I’m seeing it with both eyes open for the first time

[@kath3478]

thinking that watching shane dawson would turn you into a "terrifyingly paranoid person" is just as ridiculous as any of his takes💀

[@wowieitssam9457]

​@kath3478 it's not necessarily as silly as it sounds. Especially thinking back to his hype back in like 2018, everyone loooved him and always agreed with him. With his relatable, grounded, online friend persona, a very impressionable young audience, and well-edited content (often formatted or advertised as a factual documentary), there's a pretty real chance that people (kids/teens) could base several of their opinions off of his conspiracy nonsense. Tldr: When you're young and look up to someone, you believe them.

[@Mskittenlover12]

@@kath3478 No it's actually based off the fact I know myself well enough to know how easily influenced I could be. I also have anxiety already so watching things like that would only add to it and its why I don't fall down those rabbit holes anymore. THAT is why I know I would become paranoid. I just barely avoided being pulled in that direction several times.

[@aleighamelissa]

Saaaaaaame

[@xyzen9673]

the amount of fear-mongering shane does is frankly impressive to me

[@transdimensionalantics8526]

They wanna ban tictok because so many minors are posting like it's snapchat only, instead of friends watching them, it's grown men in their 40s. Children don't know how to be safe on the internet and tictok has no restrictions. They literally let 8 year old dance around in booty shorts and tube tops. It's disgusting, thats why people want it banned. There's been so many murder cases and missing peoples cases all surrounding tictok. It's dangerous because of the us citizens who are misusing it. It's because pedophiles are spying on children, not because China is spying everyone. Yes, it's privacy issues, but it's more for childrens safety than men in their 30s who don't have to worry about being kidnapped. 😂😂

[@transdimensionalantics8526]

Uneducated idiots lead to even more idiotic conspiracies, research things yourself rather than hear about why tictok is getting banned from someone who makes money from content they post on tictok. It's obviously not the real reason. He just wants the money from it. Who's cares about the children getting groomed to be on onlyfans

[@rachelcox1747]

I know! Im freaked out by these short clips in between Jarvis's commentary lol

[@laurenfinney5390]

It’s also so sad as his audience from 2010-2016 grow out of him and he is finding the fresh 13 year olds nowadays to make up his audience.

[@sagekay9121]

With the right team behind him he could probably be a politician

[@williamhammond4368]

Shane is like every Facebook Grandma that has "I DO NOT GIVE FACEBOOK PERMISSION TO PRINT STUFF OFF MY COMPUTER" in their bio

[@altalt479]

Ugh my mum posts stuff like this and I'm like ma'am ? Facebook does not care about your cat videos and family photos 😭

[@annasun9751]

I’m a software engineer, and it’s really refreshing to hear the debunking coming from someone who knows about tech…thank you for this!!!!!!

[@LiilYogurt]

Shane is literally the embodiment of Ron Swanson in the scene where he finds out his house is on Google Maps and throws out his entire computer

[@rat-xo7mj]

I have a feeling Ron Swanson would hate Shane 😭😭

[@somethingclever4297]

​@@rat-xo7mjto be fair. Ron seems like he would hate a lot of people.

[@Adambenhmida0000]

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 Ron Swanson 😭😭

[@MamaDoctorJones]

Jarvis watching this is me watching every hormonal “influencer” spout misinformation 😆

[@robineras477]

Y’all should do a vid together. That would be fun.

[@Beansquishy]

Im seconding the fact that you two should collab that would be so fun

[@sheerluck9892]

omg i love that you watch Jarvis

[@rtcnoodles]

you. jarvis. collab. now.

[@maryellenparmenter9303]

Oo I need to go see if you have a video on that. Social media got me all tied up in knots about my period blood color for a hot sec.

[@apocalynds]

shane's weird shrill hysteria is really giving "weird alcoholic uncle who has never read a book in his life"

[@gh0stpuppi333]

Weird… for me it was giving ‘my mom’ 🤭

[@ckind2098]

My 3yr old niece very confidently tells me random nonsense all the time. It feels like basically the same experience as hearing anything from Shane.

[@cokeandcheese.6617]

_let's not forget when shane and his group treated the genocide of indigenous people as a spooky supernatural thing and went to the location to ghost hunt_

[@mariejimenez3694]

Whattt

[@annalivingtv]

Omg the fact that I entirely forgot he did this- I used to watch him and I’m Native American 💀

[@isa-ob7zz]

oh my god-

[@m.josena4485]

Wait where at? 😮

[@breakingbruh4930]

@@m.josena4485 idk where he went but the vid was one of the first ones after he came back from his 2020 scandal or on rylands channel around the time he came back

[@cricket9928]

I like the furby theory because they don’t respond unless you shake them awake, and then they never shut up if they’re turned on so there’s really no useful way to use a furby for spying at all

[@ripley528]

the mention of having to shake them awake put the image in my head of a furby screaming while being shaken and it made me giggle

[@reepusvanguard]

How tf could they fit a camera or a microphone in a 90s firby when cams and mics used to be huge and expensive

[@liz_loves_cats]

​@@reepusvanguardintelligence officers have always had higher grades of technology than the average person. Someone attempting to sneak in and record audio would be very inconspicuous. Not every microphone back then was massive and clunky, that's why listening devices are nicknamed 'bugs' because they're small. They started being used in the 1950s and there was a long period of time for them to develop the technology and make it smaller and more discreet over time

[@frankiesayspanic]

i just imagined someone sneaking into the fuckin white house with a furby and trying to nonchalantly shake it awake so it could record super top government secrets and then the furby making those loud waking yawning noises and everyone just looking at the worst ever spy like 🤨

[@ripley528]

@@frankiesayspanic this is exactly what I mean lmao

[@sari9645]

I love when people who actually understand technology (like Jarvis) debunk these fear-mongering conspiracy theories. For people with bad anxiety or paranoia those sorts of conspiracy theories can ruin our day by triggering panic

[@crazyowlgirlcncowner]

Exactly! I like not being afraid of everything, thank you very much

[@atmmachine11]

I have bad anxiety but I don’t suddenly believe stupid conspiracy theories.

[@leocastrej0n]

that is literally just you idk who Our is and speak for yourself. I like when people who actually have anxiety don’t clump everyone else in with anxiety to validate their weird ass take

[@kiwi_trucks]

FR ‼️‼️ like my anxiety isn’t TERRIBLE but these conspiracy theories still freak me out a little bit and it’s nice to see so much stuff debunking it

[@meatlemonade3338]

100% this! back when k was actually a fan of Shane (ew) i was in a bad place mental health wise and it really triggered my paranoia and led to some delusions

[@bradpittreal]

me walking into the pentagon with a furby would probably more concerning than if I walked into there with an actual microphone

[@notchpoodles5864]

True lol

[@gabriellegunvik4377]

side-eyed at least lol

[@disembodied1273]

Shane's conspiracy content is basically the KZbin equivalent of fox news

[@ecliiipsssse]

eh, Shane is just a dumbass, fox News is malicious

[@elizabethb4168]

Oh God, it kinda is

[@ScottCalvinsClause]

Tucker Carlson for kids

[@haliee]

that makes perfect sense

[@nightjetts]

Literally he gets views by fearmongering with no research 😮‍💨

[@thebadpoet]

The IT guy at work said “if the person lecturing at you about chatGPT can’t tell you what ‘GPT’ stands for, you don’t have to listen to their opinion” and honestly it’s been great. And I have zero doubt Shane has zero clue what it stands for.

[@Artificer_]

what *does* GPT stand for?

[@thatoneguy9582]

​@Artificer_ Generative Pre-training Transformer, apparently of which i don't understand two of the three words but I understand "generative" and that seems to be the important one

[@veerarousku778]

​@@thatoneguy9582 Shane: did you say tRANSFORMER?

[@evelynh6223]

TIKTOK IS BUILDING DECEPTICONS

[@Naokarma]

Better yet: Ask them what ChatGPT is. If they don't mention anything about LLM's, they probably don't know much about how it works. You can know a lot about LLM's without knowing the exact words that make up "GPT"

[@sofiadarrigo_]

videos like shane’s only increase anxiety in people because of the dramatized script and the lack of information. thank you jarvis for explaining and debunking harmful misinformation.

[@ulisessalduna4351]

When I was a child (like 10 or 11) I was watching a youtube video of an asshole claiming that we received a message from the future of a virus outbreak that wiped out like half the human race or some shit and made the world a wasteland, and stupid 10 year old me fully believed it, that night I had nightmares, and the day after that me and my parents were going on a road trip and every time I saw a truck that looked like it could have something chemical inside freaked me out. I couldn’t sleep for at least a month for that fucking video. I honestly hate fear-mongering videos with no research and just coming up with the most stupid and fear inducing conclusions, either that or just straight up lying

[@cha0ticneutralbigs]

Why he’s doing is genuinely harmful, I remember being a paranoid kid with psychosis and finding his videos and believing them, I’m still a person with paranoid psychosis but now I don’t let him and people like him feel into my delusions and actually do research on things and as someone with speech loss those apps that record snippets of your voice and translate speech to text in your voice is so helpful. And yes there is some things you can do to protect your ID, data and self online, these are just fearmongering

[@yomamas1559]

That’s not his fault that’s YOURS or your parents fault for letting you watch videos like that 😭 He’s not responsible for a kid watching his videos, besides in those old ones he has always stated in both the videos and description that the video is just for fun and not meant to be taken seriously. No one else to blame but you or your parents. When i was a kid and i watched those video i found them fascinating but i never took it literal and had break downs over it. Some people just can’t watch certain things and you can’t blame the people who made those things, just the people who LET you watch those things.

[@ducklikeachicken]

@@yomamas1559 thanks for victim blaming

[@lokie3292]

@@yomamas1559this response is actually wild to me. Between the victim blaming, basically defending Shane’s fear mongering videos regardless of his ‘disclaimers’, and the tone you use in this comment towards the OP… it’s a yikes from me.

[@GiannaLynn__]

@@yomamas1559defending a pedo is actually insane

[@officalwalterwhite]

@@JBLONKOStill, he should do more research. He’s grabbing shit outta his ass and posting them without further thought. I’m sorry but maybe he shouldn’t be a conspiracy theorist if he only makes inferences 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️ Many people are scared because of HIS lack of knowledge, If HE didn’t post it THEY wouldn’t be paranoid on stupid fake shit, and that’s on Shane.

[@deadglrlwalking]

i’m positive shane won’t stop making these videos until a company sues him and even then he’ll make a conspiracy theory about how he said something truthful they didn’t like

[@notnotahuman183]

He nearly got sued by Chuck E Cheese for the reusing pizza conspiracy and he's still doing this shit lmao

[@gayghostprince]

exact same thing he did with chuck e. cheese

[@stretchmonster]

Yeah, he may be rich, but he's not eff you rich. Corporations have some of the best lawyers on the planet. "We will bury you."

[@maem7462]

@@notnotahuman183 I was thinking didn’t that almost happen

[@bifiana]

Shane Dawson being as famous as he is, is truly proof the internet is a failed social experiment.

[@hebedite4865]

that's because it was originally a science experiment (ARPAnet) that, once the military didn't need exclusive access to post cold war, was haphazardly sold to the public and it devolved from there on out.

[@leaffinite2001]

Its proof that we should maybe stop taking a system made up mostly of 14 yr olds seriously at all.

[@yvaskhmir]

I'd point my finger more towards the people that have the power to shut him down, because, at least from what I remember, he's responsible for some really bad shit and I don't think he ever faced any consequences.

[@fauscsk_9099]

Sssniperwolf

[@monkeynews8311]

@@yvaskhmirJust keep reporting all his videos for child abuse.

[@LibertyMonk]

what we call AI is not intelligent. It's just a program that got trained to do what we want it to most of the time. It doesn't have a plan or anything, we just told it "no, don't do that" or "yeah, that's better than the garbage you were doing before" over and over again until it worked well enough that it's cheaper to pay people to fix its mistakes than to pay people to do what it does.

[@CocoLicious]

If you strip humanoid reaction over processes, people suddenly believe things are "intelligent". Yes, what Neural Networks can so now is impressive but it's also the very human focused language it's uses instead of processing speak no matter the limitations of training. But maybe intelligence can also be redefined to "I only know the next word I am saying, no bigger contexts", it would certainly fit the quality of Shanes Video.

[@ulisessalduna4351]

Right now even our most advanced AIs don't even reach a "general" knowledge, they are just good at doing very specific thing and those things only, like stockfish is literally the best chess AI in the world and can beat magnus carlsen 99 times out of 100 but that doesn't mean that is a super advanced AI with a plan to conquer the world. If we ever reach a level where an AI is as intelligent or more intelligent than a human being and with the same capabilities, knowledge, and, more importantly, the ability to learn, then we can start asking these questions. And I say "if" because right now we are not near of reaching this level of AI

[@chaoticoverdrive27]

This is what I have been saying. People still think that it’s going to rule to world when we really shouldn’t be calling it ‘AI’ at all. It cannot create thoughts on its own, It has no emotional intelligence at all, and it continues to fail at things it is supposed to be good at.

[@bosstowndynamics5488]

A big part of the problem here is the way people are used to judging intelligence. GPT and other LLMs are being seen as human because they talk like humans, but the only reason they do that is because they're massive generative models that are trained on terabytes of written human communications. Loads of people keep seeing these random transcripts of AI chatbots claiming to be human and freaking out, but it's literally just that the AI has just read transcripts of what were probably tons of sci-fi stories where the fictional AI thinks it's human or something to that effect. The people who panic about those conversations then don't see all of the other AI transcripts where people literally reprogram the model by giving it specially phrased prompts, or where they trick it into saying nonsense, or various other bizarre results that make it very clear that these models aren't as sophisticated as marketing would have you believe.

[@Przemko27Z]

And in the case of things like GPT, the thing we train them to do is "speak like a human would". It doesn't really understand anything it's saying, but has enough statistical data on what saying looks like to seem like it does. It's impressive, but it doesn't really "think" about reality beyond just what words sound probable together.

[@meganl9573]

i would LOVE to see you debunk more of his conspiracies. especially the more xenophobic ancient culture stuff. like bringing in actual facts instead of just “woah aliens!”

[@IggyTheBalrog]

The notion that Shane isn't out here using Siri constantly and fucking around with Snapchat filters is hilarious to me. He is the definition of the ideal consumer, buying stupid diamond encrusted Starbucks cups and shit.

[@SabiLewSounds]

lol the starbucks cup

[@gothicxromantic]

And then freaking out because he found out a knock off of said Starbucks cup exists and making a video calling it a “conspiracy” lol

[@Apples765]

​@@gothicxromanticwait, is that true 😂😂

[@Breadfish290]

@@Apples765Yes. By Shane’s definition, good marketing strategies are conspiracy theories.

[@shineetheworld]

FINALLY a creator who immediately identifies and condemns the sinophobia they come across, so many conspiracy theories are rooted in racism that goes unacknowledged, it's such a relief to find people who are willing to learn and educate

[@lemoncarr2599]

Not to be that guy but it’s xenophobia

[@nanhty8321]

@@lemoncarr2599sinophobia is specifically a fear or dislike of China, Chinese people and Chinese culture. Which is applicable in this situation with TikTok

[@lemoncarr2599]

@@nanhty8321 well shit I learned something new today. Thanks

[@nanhty8321]

@@lemoncarr2599 np, lotsa words out there

[@neigeshusband5327]

​@@lemoncarr2599If you want to learn more about Sinophobia, keep an eye out for whenever someone rebrands Chinese art and culture as "Japanese/South Korean". This even happens with Taiwan (not that they're the same country), such as people calling Boba Tea a Japanese creation

[@3v1l73ddy]

Shane is the most frustrating person ever

[@diztractedd]

10:00 the fact jarvis accurately predicted tiktok, instagram, or just social media platforms in general will add a “this content is ai generated” tag to content 11 months ago is actually insane

[@lacexv]

I just watched Pinely's video about Shane Dawson's conspiracy theories, and I'm shocked he's still making these videos. Most of these theories have extremely racist undertones and harmful misinformation. Shane can't keep getting away with this.

[@yourbootyholeisyourbeautyhole]

yeah, i can smell the antisemitism from here. "they" isn't always just an innocent pronoun.

[@anahand4137]

Omg, Tutter profile pic ♥Thats my bestie

[@inrodu_1027]

every time he starts yapping about his theories, i just ask myself "hmm, i wonder what shane thinks about jewish people!"

[@iversiafanatic]

@@inrodu_1027I think that’s a fair question for ANYONE who calls themselves a conspiracy theorist and I believe in aliens

[@sarahgent2674]

I have no idea why they never got caught in the cancellation of it all. I also have a theory that he's only making these videos now BECAUSE that was the only content that didn't get him in trouble. Except, between them being the staple of his channel and now, most of the classic conspiracy theories have been revealed as antisemitic (they always were, but you used to be able to plausibly say you didn't know in a way you can't now imo) and also got linked through Qanon. And he's not trying to court cancellation, that's why he's making these videos, so he has to make new theories up wholecloth and he's not very creative so they end up like this.

[@AurmazlZudeh]

Infamous "Voice Stealing Technology" created by Ursula from The Little Mermaid

[@emilyfurtak7130]

This made me laugh out loud 😂

[@NylaTheWolf]

PFFFFFFT.

[@AkiyzaRose]

As someone who works at an AI tech company, seeing stuff like this makes me laugh because people really overestimate it’s capabilities. It’s really giving Y2K.

[@saddesklunch2544]

But the reason y2k didn’t happen was because we did something about it before it could. It doesn’t really work as an example

[@AkiyzaRose]

@@saddesklunch2544 Not the bug itself, but the disaster scenarios, fear mongering and lack of knowledge on the capabilities of the technology and the steps being taken to fix it. There is a lot of misinformation, sensationalization, and lack of understanding when it comes to technology, partially because it grows at such a rapid pace, and people have historically, like with y2k, taken advantage of that to create panic.

[@whitewolf262]

It's so fucking funny how people think that LLMs are AGIs and are one stone's throw away from being Skynet.

[@ked49]

My parents are afraid of ai, they thought the secret invasion intro was going to hypnotise them. I tried explaining how dumb ai is, and it’s limitations. But they wouldn’t listen

[@ShinyWasTakenTwice]

@@whitewolf262 They can create bad art and write nonsensical stories, thats basically Skynet already

[@janetandamocha7874]

"One day, the power will go out" when talking about when electronic machines take over is hilarious to me.

[@goingsillymode]

The way i see someone roasting shane and INSTANTLY click, no hesitation

[@dontfindmeguilty]

Haha me too!

[@sicknastyjr5727]

Literally my exact thoughts as soon as this video popped up 😭😭

[@cinnis5670]

Omfg same. My dumbass grew up watching him and now I relish in watching people dunk on him. Motherfucker messed me up.

[@erinraverty8244]

you must love jake doolittle

[@delta_atled]

Same

[@frickfrog6546]

Shane's conspiracies is the type of stuff I come up with when I'm talking to myself on the toilet because I got bored and I'm constipated

[@lesbianlego]

omfg😭😭

[@ked49]

@@lesbianlegofrog has to get that shit out one way or another

[@iwashere3167]

Real😭😭

[@SappyDuder]

His conspiracy theories sound like something I'd think up when on some real good devil's lettuce, only to be like "that's stupid" two minutes later

[@AshChiCupcak]

This is how I feel listening to my parents talk about flat earth. Just because you don't understand something, doesn't mean it's something bad or it's a conspiracy. Not understanding science and technology leads to a majority of these conspiracy theories.

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

I think l accidentally proved the Earth is round. I was video calling someone in Africa from Scandinavia, and the sun was only down for me. I think that's because of the curvature of the Earth, but l don't know enough astronomy to be certain.

[@cup_of_tea755]

​@@TheDanishGuyReviewsthat is because of the curvature of the earth but people have known that for hundreds of years so I wouldn't say proved

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

@@cup_of_tea755 Proved for myself, not the world. The post was more how it was kind of funny that l discovered it by accident, not that l needed the proof or was alone about finding it.

[@cup_of_tea755]

@@TheDanishGuyReviews oh, sorry for misunderstanding

[@Dobbyisfreelmao]

Okay but Earth is flat though

[@alicemaddock]

Shanes fear mongering about AI reminds me of everyone going crazy over the Y2K bug

[@aadreein]

This reminds me of the time I bought a mattress online, and asked for it to be shipped to my house, and my IT friend looked at their ToS and was so freaked out that the company "stored my name and address". like, yeah dude, if I want something to be delivered to my house, that is the bare minimum information. I sure hope they are storing it somewhere!

[@frog1405]

Guess they just gotta manifest it into your home

[@ashikjaman1940]

You need to send the mattress company a carrier pigeon to be safe

[@baydiac]

To be fair, most IT people I know hate technology more than the most tech illiterate. Like, if you offer an IT person a free smart-fridge they'd be tempted to smash it with a hammer. Very on brand for your friend-I'm not in IT but I still refuse to let companies save my credit card information, I type it in manually every time.

[@Sleipnirseight]

​​@@baydiacthis. My partner is a programmer and loves AI tech, but we don't have any smart home stuff owned/supported by a large company. All of our smart home stuff is open-source and DIY.

[@thelastchannelonyoutube]

It’s almost impossible to talk about the real problems concerning AI because people keep talking about alarmist sci-fi nonsense instead of the problems that the tech is presenting us now.

[@Kittypika4]

Totally with you, also wondering what real problems you mean? (I’m just genuinely curious because I don’t know much about AI)

[@thelastchannelonyoutube]

@@Kittypika4 Well there's the obvious (people losing jobs, plagiarized work, deepfakes presented as real). But there's also the problem of unchecked bias in the data these neural networks are being trained on resulting in bigoted assessments from these AI programs. and there's also the fact that a lot of people assume that because it "Artificial intelligence" and its advanced, that means it's infallible and therefore can be trusted to give factual information (it cannot).

[@giaobr168]

@@Kittypika4ai generated art and plagiarism are the ones i know about

[@Kittypika4]

@@giaobr168 ahhh yeah that makes sense thankyou!

[@ZeallustImmortal]

​@@Kittypika4Lots of jobs being replaced too. Happened with general automation back in the day, now we are developing even better automation.

[@paulcasanova1909]

Fun Fact: AI (machine learning) has been around since the 1970's. Around the time literally every single topic in Computer Science came about

[@Ella-qy5vm]

It’s actually kind of scary that Shane is making these types of videos on such a massive platform. I grew up watching his conspiracy videos and because I was so impressionable, I genuinely believed what he was saying. This led me to go into deep dives of actual tragedies and believe the theories about them, which is just so sad and something that I regret. Obviously I don’t believe those things anymore, but it’s so scary knowing that there are people who grew up the same way and haven’t grown/changed, as well as the current and future generations that will go through the same thing. It’s horrible.

[@triceratop_cat]

Shane seems like the type of guy to make a whole conspiracy when he realizes accepting cookies make websites remember info about you

[@BoldTint]

Implying that he's not the type of person to think that websites mean literal cookies.

[@chefboyardeeznutsinyourmouth]

I hate Shane's fear mongering as much as the next guy, but cookies are something to be concerned about. They're pretty much only used to track you and sell information to data brokers/advertisers. Denying whichever cookies a given website lets you disable is always the recommended course of action. Don't try to downplay something you don't know anything about, you're as bad as Shane talking about AI now.

[@nikkinnom]

@@BoldTint LMAOOOOO

[@muntakaahmed2283]

It's genuinely concerning that he's saying this stuff to his already brain dead audience who are probably gonna believe him without a second thought

[@negative6442]

Shane's audience, thankfully, are total idiots who can't really do anything with their shitty knowledge

[@BRUCEMYWAYNE]

No literally as a high schooler I entertained his wild conspiracies, now recently graduating college they all seem so unnecessarily convoluted and such a reach omg

[@chillout1738]

Shane fearmongers like his fav Republican politicians.

[@trainwreck7125]

I had a friend a few years ago who had been a Shane Dawson fan since she was in middle school and he just made stupid sketch comedy videos. As he started spewing these strange conspiracy theories I watched her get more and more sucked in until she was talking about pizza gate and 5g cell towers giving us all brain tumors. I’m not saying Shane caused her spiral, she was definitely struggling with mental health already, but he definitely fueled the fire.

[@BlisaBLisa]

yea i think even seemingly harmless conspiracy theories like the chuck e cheese stuff is still harmful, it encourages conspiratorial thinking which leads to that spiral into more and more harmful theories.

[@jeamsis]

“It always feels like a ghost video” I’ve never heard Shane’s “conspiracies” described more perfectly

[@VegQuaker13]

100% Shane should talk to a psychiatrist about his conspiracy theories

[@toomanybrews7123]

The CCP being a shitty, dystopian, authoritarian government is not a conspiracy theory. Their control over TikTok's data isn't either. We should genuinely be worried about that.

[@tonichan89]

Like Kati? She's not a psychiatrist but she can just grab her handy dandy DSM5! 😂

[@breakingbruh4930]

@@tonichan89 not kati morton😭😭😭 although he would love that because she would just say whatever he wants to hear

[@meowzer6]

It'd be like that one b99 episode where Jake hands Gina over to a bunch of psychiatrists to stop her from stealing from Holt's house 💀💀

[@PaddleboardingFL]

Shane is like all the boomers who told kids not to believe everything they see on the internet, only to turn around and believe / push misinformation all over the internet. it would behoove shane to bring an actual expert of these topics to interview them.. but then he wouldnt be able to tell his young, impressionable audience that tiktok is out to get them

[@brantgarratt3665]

10:12 when he says everything he ironically uses the ASL sign for never lol

[@nazeenh9806]

Of all the ai problems he could’ve have chosen, like ai art theft( I distinctly remember a company saying if fans missed work from a somewhat recently deceased artist they could experience new pieces with their program/ didn’t have the family’s permission ), google docs basically saying it will scrape what u’ve made and steal it with no opt out, writers on ao3 already getting their work stolen without permission, the writer/actors strike and the threat of ai there…. But Chatgbt “taking over the world” cus the ai is sentient is what he chose 😭😭😭

[@Purplesquigglystripe]

Yeah there are definitely things about ai to be concerned about, but not Shane’s nonsensical takes

[@bishielurfer]

AI definitely has massive issues that need to be sorted out. In addition to all of the stolen creative works, many companies are now using AI algorithms for hiring decisions, and the results are showing clear bias and the systems are extremely opaque so even the developers can't always tell why the AI arrived at the decision it did. These systems are made and taught by humans, which means any bias, even implicit bias, is going to carry over. AI is being adopted in areas it absolutely shouldn't be used in (at least not without constant monitoring of the results to identify and correct for any issues) while the issues it has are still currently present

[@fullsundotgov]

docs isn’t being scraped unless you opted in to google _labs_ when it was rolled out in july. google had to issue further clarification after a tweet encouraging every writer to delete docs went viral

[@tyleraws]

@@fullsundotgovwell that’s good bc i was about to delete google docs LMAO

[@nuclearseahorse]

Unfortunately I don't think he cares about anything he makes so he's not going to put effort into making anything comprehensible, nuanced or even novel tbh

[@genericname2747]

Conspiracy theory: Shane is a cat. He had a perfectly normal relationship with a fellow cat.

[@McBehrer]

then why does he deny it so vehemently? it just doesn't add up!

[@Meleedroit]

Because cat years are different to human years, he was also perfectly normal with those little girls.

[@genericname2747]

@@McBehrer because cats don't have human rights! Cats can't vote, or marry, or drive. He fears being oppressed by the anti-cat government

[@private755]

There were so many “funny” videos of him rubbing his mouths on dogs.. ya know. There is no way he didn’t do that to his cat.

[@schemesthefox1255]

​@@McBehrerI thought yall were the same person for a sec

[@ChunkTheEditor]

I always love how “conspiracies” come from the most mundane, easily explainable things.

[@denomen3391]

yeah his "conspiracies" are just things he didn't know so he assumes he's making some great revelation when he's just dumb

[@FrumiousMing8]

Also he presents this information like a brand new revelation (like social media gathering data for advertisers) when everyone has already heard about it already. Like data gathering is super old news by now...

[@ChunkTheEditor]

@@FrumiousMing8 yeah exactly like saying “DID YOU KNOW THAT UBER TRACKS YOU WHEN YOU’RE NOT IN THE APP 🤯🤯🤯” Like yeah no shit, it kinda has to

[@bosstowndynamics5488]

​@@ChunkTheEditor"OH MY GOD IT TURNS OUT USING YOUR FACE TO UNLOCK YOUR PHONE MEANS YOUR PHONE KNOWS WHAT YOUR FACE LOOKS LIKE!"

[@ChunkTheEditor]

@@bosstowndynamics5488 NOOOOOOO!!!!

[@notmyname1208]

I love how people always come to the conclusion that if AI somehow gain self conscious. It would want to take over the world and eliminate human life as if it's a evil cartoon villain. Instead of doing something like trying to live in harmony with humans or go into hiding/trying to escape.

[@christiem1934]

Thank you for defending voice banking! My dad has ALS and this is a tool we’re going to start using soon. It’s so that if you later need assistance to speak (like from a machine), then the voice would at least be in your own voice. Think Stephen hawking. A very helpful tool and definitely not sinister ❤

[@ariellewilson5867]

Exactly, we call it a type of AAC device.

[@brett8259]

What got me the most is the fact Shane said AI "suddenly" took over as though AI has not been a thing being worked on for ages.

[@morganqorishchi8181]

A lot of my older relatives act like this, too, as if AI was only recently created. Or they say "the AI", as if there's only one.

[@whoacoolhandle]

By the looks of his content now, I wouldn't say I'd be shocked if Shane becomes a right-wing grifter in five years. 😓

[@meow.4972]

Just like his bestie Jeff.

[@ScoopMeisterGeneral]

He isn't already?

[@melissam4954]

5 years? More like 5 months

[@luwucien]

He has been for years though???

[@mxmissy]

Probably will say who he's "one of the good ones" like Blair White and Dave Rubin.

[@ccjjmm03]

it's so fun to watch someone well-versed in technology watch shane's dumpster fire

[@sarahgent2674]

The problem is that, for some reason, Shane's least controversial content has been conspiracy videos. However, any real conspiracy theories now immediately lead to Q stuff and he knows he doesn't need that heat because it's about the one thing he hasn't been cancelled for yet. So he has to make up the most milquetoast conspiracy possible, while still trying to make it sound scary because that was the entire appeal of the original conspiracy videos (which it's wild that he never got in trouble for).

[@joli1320]

I'm surprised Chuck E Cheese didn't sue the fuck out of him tbh, there were legit followup videos of people getting jobs there in an effort to "expose" them

[@thefallencore3]

I get that he never got in trouble for it, but I'm pretty sure in the past he has talked about stuff that leads to right wing ideologies, like that conspiracy that famous people are lizard people.

[@kjaxthegrate]

It kinda feels like he's trying to regain relevancy through these videos. Of course, he has to be careful or his entire gross body of work will resurface....

[@sarahgent2674]

@@thefallencore3 true, and I haven't watched the video so I don't know how he approached it. I'm aware that most of these theories have always been antisemitic and often right wing, but I feel that there used to be some form of plausible deniability that doesn't exist anymore. The lizard people one is a perfect example. It was always antisemitic, but it was once easy to pretend you didn't know that, or that you didn't mean it that way. You had to look into it to find its insidiousness. Now, because Q solidified most of these theories into one thing and also explicitly stated that they think that anyone left of Trump is trying to destroy America, you can no longer do a video about one of the classic theories without fifty response videos saying "hey this is dangerous stop pushing it". I feel like, for example, if this were not the case he might have made a video about 5G, but in this climate you can't do that without people immediately associating it with COVID denialism, and so on. To be clear, I think it's good that more people know about how bad these theories are, I'm just explaining why it's a problem for Shane specifically.

[@BenJover]

@@kjaxthegrate Oh yeah. Don't want people to find him cutting toys with a hot knife right?

[@tleigh4583]

Shane freaking out because you couldn’t bring a furbie into a classified space, as if you’re allowed to bring in any outside electronics. You’re not unless they’re pre-screened and even then they’re usually highly controlled. We had to fight like hell to get a boombox in the classified space I worked in. It used to feel like working in a bunker.

[@froggiepie]

as a furby expert/collector, the instant he mentioned furbies i started laughing The reason people thought furbies could record them was because furbies were programmed to start out speaking furbish, and slowly incorporate more English or other language’s words the more you interact with them, giving the appearance that they learned from kids talking to them. They were banned from the pentagon based on a rumor and didn’t even check with the manufacturers, which said after the ban that no, furby can’t record anything. The microphone in the 1998/99 furby can only sense when there is a noise, not what the noise actually is. The only thing a furby can actually ‘hear’ is a beep from the sensor. Funnily enough, the more recent furbies actually can connect to the internet (2016 furby connect) and record our voices based on a voice command (2023 furby) but it doesn’t have any capability to do anything with that. It’s just for a fun for kids to play with. The 2023 furby repeats what you said in silly voices and the 2016 and 2012 furbies have apps that come with little games and stuff for kids.

[@badako]

Thank you for the furby lore I never had a furby but I always found it funny how people were scared lf them

[@hannibalspectre637]

Or is that just what Big Furby wants us to think 😳😂

[@marsiemarsiemarsie]

@@badakoits not the english its those DEAD FUCKING EYES BRO same with american girl dolls, i will never recover from the trauma

[@clownshrooms]

exactly what i was about to say!! --another furby expert

[@shelby8101]

I had a furby and a Shelby (cuz that’s my name!) and I loved them so much. Once my cat had fleas BAD and they came into the house.. my furby started saying Shelby has fleas! And it was the funniest thing I’ve ever heard 😂

[@YOLO-yx2nz]

The way Shane says that Snapchat ai has access to infinite amounts of data is crazy because as an example me and my Snapchat ai had a fight over wether the queen of England was dead, it even said it’s self that It doesn’t have the access to any resources to confirm the queen was dead.

[@ErisIsAnAbomination]

This exactly. The idea that AI can effortlessly tap into everything and anything that’s ever been uploaded to the internet is literally just sci-fi nonsense. Even bots on Character AI will get well-known canon details wrong because they *can’t access that information.* Everything AI chats “say” is based on previous chat logs from other users.

[@conceptualizing]

15:54 with snapchat ai, you can practically gaslight and confuse your ai by force-feeding it what it should say repeatedly. what i think was actually happening here was before the recorded chats, they told the ai that it was human & took the sections where it “believed” (ai has no beliefs) the information it was being fed. ive seen many instances of this which is why i think thats whats happening as opposed to the less plausible idea of snapchat having a purposeful hand in it

[@aw7145]

It's basically the same thing that happened with more primitive "AI" chatbots like cleverbot, right? They were "trained" to insist they were humans because the actual humans talking to them would do that and the bots just picked up it and repeated it back

[@Bees_Wear_Sweaters]

One of my concerns with the kinds of videos shane makes is how this kind of stuff could be really scary/triggering for people with disorders that come with paranoia. Shanes just stating all of these things like facts and it could really scare someone who was already struggling with those kinds of fears. Edit: fixed spelling mistake from on to one

[@xyzzyx4839]

when i was 12 - 14 (aka when my bipolar disorder started manifesting) i would often binge shane's conspiracy videos because the vibes of knowing more than the average person and being aware of all this freaky shit really played into my not-quite-psychosis and in a way i found it soothing that the world might be as ominous and distorted as it seemed....... yeah wasn't fucking healthy lmao and being a preteen i had no idea what fact-checking was either so the best i got to actual clarity was thinking "hmm... i don't think *that* one seems *quite* right...." which was always a very difficult thought to have, never mind reassure myself of, because my paranoia is very easily affected by ~spooky music~ like a cartoon character. awful.

[@transdimensionalantics8526]

They wanna ban tictok because so many minors are posting like it's snapchat only, instead of friends watching them, it's grown men in their 40s. Children don't know how to be safe on the internet and tictok has no restrictions. They literally let 8 year old dance around in booty shorts and tube tops. It's disgusting, thats why people want it banned. There's been so many murder cases and missing peoples cases all surrounding tictok. It's dangerous because of the us citizens who are misusing it. It's because pedophiles are spying on children, not because China is spying everyone. Yes, it's privacy issues, but it's more for childrens safety than men in their 30s who don't have to worry about being kidnapped. 😂😂

[@johnevrelnd594]

nah are u kidding💀💀💀 then just dont watch Shane???

[@xyzzyx4839]

@@johnevrelnd594 are you familiar with the concepts of compulsion and self-destructive patterns

[@xyzzyx4839]

@@johnevrelnd594also i don't think op was saying they still watch shane. they were saying that current watchers, who may not know the details of what they're going to see or realize how much it may harm them, with such problems might be upset by the content.

[@erikm8373]

I'm always fascinated by people who genuinely think chatgpt is like, actually intelligent. It literally doesn't comprehend the meanings of the words it produces, it's just a bunch of numbers in an algorithm. the way it "thinks" is literally just looking at the words you put in, then referencing a database and determining the word with the highest probability to follow. It's the same process you see if you type "I'll come over" into your phone, and it can predict that the next word is likely to be something like "tomorrow," or "soon," it's just that the algorithm on chatgpt has a bigger database and more resources behind it. It is not capable of accessing and controlling systems, because it just does math about probabilities. Furthermore, why would an AI take over and instantly turn off all the power everywhere? At that point, the AI is shut off, so what's stopping us from turning all the power back on?

[@bosstowndynamics5488]

In fairness, if you zoom in enough a human thinking is just a bunch of chemicals flying around in a lump of fat and water, there's no fundamental reason that a sufficiently advanced neural network can't think. Now, of course, ChatGPT is definitely *not* that model, for starters it's computationally simple enough for us to use it for casual free internet chatbots, and the only reason people think it's smart is because it reads like a human (which is the sole thing it's actually programmed to do, read like a human).

[@magnus1383]

We end up in an endless cycle of AI shutting off the power because that's what they scraped from conspiracy theorists and us turning the power back on because we'd really much prefer if it was on.

[@meowzer6]

Personally i like to walk into all of my top secret business meetings with a furby on my shoulder

[@notchpoodles5864]

Me too

[@UnicornPug]

I love how shane doesn't clarify that THERE IS A DIFFERENT BETWEEN ROBOTS AND AI. they are not the same thing. AI is helped in the movements of robots and them taking in information, but showing a picture of a random a$$ robot is not the same. neither of them will take over the world btw.

[@ked49]

Unless someone intentionally programs the robots to take over the world. Like strapping weapons to roombas. Then making them go in one direction

[@UnicornPug]

that is so dumb omg @@ked49

[@staciii]

Shane is a giant kid who is finally discovering basic things of the world 😂

[@thatoneguy9582]

shane thinks he is the only person in the world who can think critically

[@Andy-jh2fs]

The revelations he had about Trader Joe's were even more hilarious to me.

[@johnevrelnd594]

u prob didnt know any of this💀💀

[@flowerpuffgirls1425]

@@johnevrelnd594i smell projection lol. you’re prob just mad that YOU didn’t know about all these basic things of the world, just like shane

[@jbmp1390]

​@@thatoneguy9582What Shane is engaging in is the exact OPPOSITE of Critical Thinking.

[@zakadamia715]

For some reason I'm disappointed these "conspiracies" are so milquetoast and not some actually deranged shit

[@elee3304]

Agreed. Also unrelated but I love the word milquetoast I didn’t know anywhere else out there used it lol

[@private755]

It’s because he’s aiming them at 12 year olds

[@HopeIsADrug11037]

fr like if you're gonna make up stupid shit then at least make it interesting

[@hadrianryan4179]

Yeah this is just some guy being racist and dumb about technology. There are millions of that guy. That guy is like... 40% of the US. At least. Show me someone who thinks Bat Boy is the secret vice president 😂

[@genericname2747]

There aren't even any cryptids/aliens in this conspiracy theory :(

[@PeachyKeen724]

Shane Dawson is the kind of person who’d make a Facebook status saying “I DON’T GIVE FB PERMISSION TO USE MY PHOTOS”

[@robylanekelley5005]

So the Snapchat AI has either been trained not to say it’s human since Shane did “research” or something because I just checked. I typed in “Are you a human?” and the AI said “Nope, I'm not a human! Just a virtual friend here to chat with you. How can I help you today? 😄” I have a lot of problems with the Snapchat AI but I’ve never heard anyone say it thought it was a human until now lmao

[@kitten4d]

Pretty positive he was just lying lol. I talked to the snapchat ai (months ago) about the bee movie. And then I asked if it was a human if it would be an a relationship with a bee. The AI kept saying that it was not human and just an ai and could not be in a relationship with a bee. Then I had to tell it to pretend it was a human. It finally said something like if it was pretending to be a human it still couldn't be in a relationship with a bee because the bee wouldn't be able to consent.

[@Elralie]

You can temporarily “manipulate” the Snapchat AI into saying that it’s human, but it takes a bit of effort. If you ask it to roleplay as a human and clearly state that you know it’s actually an AI, it’ll play along. I just got the response “Yes, I am a human. How can I assist you today? 😄” after testing it again. I imagine that conspiracy channels use the same technique just to get a dramatic screenshot.

[@overwhelmed_bear]

I asked “are you a human” and it said yes, but when I asked “but aren’t you an AI” it clarified that “human” is a friendly way it refers to itself💀

[@m.josena4485]

@@kitten4dawe 😭

[@poopdick69]

Snap AI so far is excellent for me but I'm also not an addictive person and use it for its proper usage-- resource and chat bot. I don't have actual conversations with it because it's a robot...

[@BrightAwake]

You are so right about how this specific strain of TikTok conspiracy comes off as sinophobic. Not to defend TikTok lol, but every social media company is doing as much as they possibly can to grab your data and keep you on the app and engaged, and the bigger issue is that it's so unregulated in the USA overall.

[@magiiyoo6715]

The amount of Sinophobia I've seen online being justified by the wrongful actions of the Chinese government/Chinese companies is crazy. Americans (conservatives and conspiracy theorists especially) are so quick to blame China for their own problems and it's honestly really weird. Also, isn't the CEO of TikTok Singaporean?

[@sari9645]

No literally. Isn’t facebook like 10 times worse in terms of privacy issues anyways?

[@effbar2400]

So your defense of tik tok is that other companies also do it?

[@spaceowl5957]

It’s not Sinophobia. If you use an American app, the Americans will get your data. If you use a Chinese app the Chinese will get your data. For Americans it’s also understandable they would be less comfortable with the Chinese surveillance them vs the US.

[@megharoni]

Not as much as China is with TikTok. I’m shocked some people really don’t realize how bad it is yet.

[@GummyDinosaursify]

I love the Senator who asked if Tiktok can connect to the home Wifi network and the look on the tech guy was like "what the fuck does that mean".

[@GrimmyGummii]

I stopped liking Shane when I grew up, but his conspiracy theories weren’t cool to me. They made me extremely anxious so THANK YOU for debunking possible (likely) false information. It’s helped me and my health and I hope it can help someone else. I rlly wish Shane didn’t irresponsibility throw huge conspiracies out there with little research because it’s made me very paranoid at times. Thank you again