Social Justice Comes to Baltimore

...in the form of a 'Bot Influencer

from Google AI:

A significant and growing number of YouTube channels, particularly in the "faceless" or automation niche, use AI bots and automated tools to generate content, with some reports suggesting that 4 out of the top 10 YouTube channels are AI-generated. These channels often operate without human faces, utilizing tools for scriptwriting, voiceovers, and video editing to produce content rapidly.

Key Types of AI-Generated Content & Tools

• Faceless/Automation Channels: These channels use tools like Invideo AI, ChatGPT, and ElevenLabs to create educational, entertaining, or "best-of" videos without showing a human creator.
• AI Avatars & Influencers: Some creators use AI-powered virtual beings, such as Angelica (@AiAngel), which is an artificial intelligence influencer with 674K subscribers.
• Video Repurposing Bots: Tools like Opus Clip are used to automatically take long-form videos and turn them into short-form, viral-ready content.
• AI-Powered Chatbots: Some creators partner with YouTube to create AI versions of themselves to interact with fans, such as the chatbot tested on Evan Carmichael's channel.

Examples of Channels/Influencers Utilizing AI Content Tools

• While many "AI influencers" are fully virtual, many human creators use AI for production automation. Examples from industry listings include:

Angelica (@AiAngel): A virtual AI influencer focused on technology and community.

AI Andy (@TheAIAndy): A channel documenting AI advancements, often using automated tools.

Wes Roth: Covers AI news and emerging tech, likely leveraging AI tools for news aggregation and summarization.

All About AI (Kristian Fagerlie): Focused on teaching how to use generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney.

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Common AI Tools Used by Influencers (as of 2025-2026)

• Scripting: ChatGPT, Claude.
• Voiceover: ElevenLabs.
• Editing/Automation: Opus Clip, AutoPod, Gling.ai.
• AI Video Generation: Kling AI, Runway.

Key Findings on AI Influencers

• Proliferation: AI-created videos are rapidly increasing, with some reports indicating that more than 20% of videos shown to new users are "AI slop" or automated content.
• Monetization: These channels can generate significant income, often earning thousands of dollars with minimal human input.
• Viewer Reception: While some AI content is popular, over half of U.S. adults are hesitant to interact with AI-generated influencers.

Disclaimer: The landscape of AI content is moving fast, and many, if not most, creators are starting to use AI as an assistive tool rather than a full replacement for human creation.

The American Media Mushroom Farm...

 

...Where they Keep You in the Dark, and Feed You Nothing but Sh*t

Iran: Impetus for a Chinese Military Reassessment?

If Military Decapitation Can Work on Venezuela and Iran, Can it Work on China, Russia, Jerusalem AND America?

When Overt Military Warfare Over-Performs, Doesn't Warfare Become Entirely Covert?

Aren't We Exponentially Expanding the War on Terror, with  DC, Moscow, and Bejing now Destined to become Ground Zeroes for International Terror?

ps - How'd that sending drones to kill Putin work out for Ukraine?  The Serbian Assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand?

This Isn't a MAGA Revolt, VDH.  It's a New Warfare/ Terrorism Paradigm Based on Uni-Polar US Dominated Globalism Emerging (Not the Limited Regional MAGA "Donroe" Doctrine) and Possibly Leading to Consequences that None of the Genius 'Military Experts' Have Predicted.  You've Heard of the New World Order?  Welcome to the New World DIS-Order!  America vs. the World!

When the News is Bad... Change the Metric

All the Smart kids are Dropping Out?

...and Just Throw More Money at It!

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If They're Screaming about Racism, Sexism, or Anti-Semitism, You can bet that they're trying to shut a better idea down in order to Protect the Gated Institutional Narrative (GIN)...

Candace: A Post-Modern David (Candace) Facing a Modern Institutional Goliath (AIPAC)?

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Why Eliminating All Internet Disinformation would Tank the World Economy

Eric Weinstein, "2011: What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody's Cognitive Toolkit"

Kayfabe

The sophisticated "scientific concept" with the greatest potential to enhance human understanding may be argued to come not from the halls of academe, but rather from the unlikely research environment of professional wrestling.

Evolutionary biologists Richard Alexander and Robert Trivers have recently emphasized that it is deception rather than information that often plays the decisive role in systems of selective pressures. Yet most of our thinking continues to treat deception as something of a perturbation on the exchange of pure information, leaving us unprepared to contemplate a world in which fakery may reliably crowd out the genuine. In particular, humanity's future selective pressures appear likely to remain tied to economic theory which currently uses as its central construct a market model based on assumptions of perfect information.

If we are to take selection more seriously within humans, we may fairly ask what rigorous system would be capable of tying together an altered reality of layered falsehoods in which absolutely nothing can be assumed to be as it appears. Such a system, in continuous development for more than a century, is known to exist and now supports an intricate multi-billion dollar business empire of pure hokum. It is known to wrestling's insiders as "Kayfabe".

Because professional wrestling is a simulated sport, all competitors who face each other in the ring are actually close collaborators who must form a closed system (called "a promotion") sealed against outsiders. With external competitors generally excluded, antagonists are chosen from within the promotion and their ritualized battles are largely negotiated, choreographed, and rehearsed at a significantly decreased risk of injury or death. With outcomes predetermined under Kayfabe, betrayal in wrestling comes not from engaging in unsportsmanlike conduct, but by the surprise appearance of actual sporting behavior. Such unwelcome sportsmanship which "breaks Kayfabe" is called "shooting" to distinguish it from the expected scripted deception called "working".

Were Kayfabe to become part of our toolkit for the twenty-first century, we would undoubtedly have an easier time understanding a world in which investigative journalism seems to have vanished and bitter corporate rivals cooperate on everything from joint ventures to lobbying efforts. Perhaps confusing battles between "freshwater" Chicago macro economists and Ivy league "Saltwater" theorists could be best understood as happening within a single "orthodox promotion" given that both groups suffered no injury from failing (equally) to predict the recent financial crisis. The decades old battle in theoretical physics over bragging rights between the "string" and "loop" camps would seem to be an even more significant example within the hard sciences of a collaborative intra-promotion rivalry given the apparent failure of both groups to produce a quantum theory of gravity.

What makes Kayfabe remarkable is that it gives us potentially the most complete example of the general process by which a wide class of important endeavors transition from failed reality to successful fakery. While most modern sports enthusiasts are aware of wrestling's status as a pseudo sport, what few alive today remember is that it evolved out of a failed real sport (known as "catch" wrestling) which held its last honest title match early in the 20th century. Typical matches could last hours with no satisfying action, or end suddenly with crippling injuries to a promising athlete in whom much had been invested. This highlighted the close relationship between two paradoxical risks which define the category of activity which wrestling shares with other human spheres:

• A) Occasional but Extreme Peril for the participants.

• B) General: Monotony for both audience and participants.

Kayfabrication (the process of transition from reality towards Kayfabe) arises out of attempts to deliver a dependably engaging product for a mass audience while removing the unpredictable upheavals that imperil participants. As such Kayfabrication is a dependable feature of many of our most important systems which share the above two characteristics such as war, finance, love, politics and science.

Importantly, Kayfabe also seems to have discovered the limits of how much disbelief the human mind is capable of successfully suspending before fantasy and reality become fully conflated. Wrestling's system of lies has recently become so intricate that wrestlers have occasionally found themselves engaging in real life adultery following exactly behind the introduction of a fictitious adulterous plot twist in a Kayfabe back-story. Eventually, even Kayfabe itself became a victim of its own success as it grew to a level of deceit that could not be maintained when the wrestling world collided with outside regulators exercising oversight over major sporting events.

At the point Kayfabe was forced to own up to the fact that professional wrestling contained no sport whatsoever, it did more than avoid being regulated and taxed into oblivion. Wrestling discovered the unthinkable: its audience did not seem to require even a thin veneer of realism. Professional wrestling had come full circle to its honest origins by at last moving the responsibility for deception off of the shoulders of the performers and into the willing minds of the audience.

Kayfabe, it appears, is a dish best served client-side.

Fake it 'til You Make it!