WEBVTT - Hurricane Conspiracy Theories 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:07.320 Col Zone media, welcome to it could happen here. It 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:10.879 is a beautiful sunny day in Atlanta, Georgia, which means 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:13.440 I think they're all lying about the weather. They said 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:16.919 this hurricane was going to come, and I'm fine, I 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:20.040 don't believe them. It's all fake. Joined with me today 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:23.079 is Mia Wong. I'm Garrison Davis. Welcome, di could happen here? 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:26.599 Welcome And it's hey, look it's it's cloudy in Portland. 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:28.360 So clearly they were telling the truth. I don't know 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:30.000 what's going on in your reality, but. 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:33.440 I can't believe that the Republicans have hijacked the weather 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:36.199 control matrix and are aiming it at Portland, Oregon to 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:40.600 wipe it off the map, to give Oregon to give 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:43.120 Oragon's vote to Donald Trump in the next election. 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:46.320 You know, one of my foundational early political memories was 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:49.600 discovering that, like the mid twenty tens era mayor of 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:53.279 Ankara thought that NATO had an earthquake machine that they 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:55.480 were setting off off the coast of Turkey in order 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:57.920 to cause you namies during hurricane season, so that because 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:00.440 so deep, NATO could destroy the Turkish economy, I hope. 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:02.840 So now we thought that was very funny. And now 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:07.480 every every single like major politician did America believe some 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:08.720 shit like that now? 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:12.279 And I was like, Oh, everyone has something, not everyone 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:15.039 has the same thing, but everyone has something crazy that 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:17.600 they believe. And that's what we're talking about here today. So, 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:20.679 oh boy, it is. It has gotten bad, folks. 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:21.199 Yeah. 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:25.040 As Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton brought widespread devastation to 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:29.280 the southeastern United States, politicians, TV anchors, and influencers have 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:32.240 been trying to weaponize the tragedy and the disaster relief 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:37.240 effort for their own partisan electoral gain, particularly via the 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:41.400 use of disinformation. Now, while the government's response to Hurricane 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:45.880 Helene can certainly be criticized, bad faith attacks originating from 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:48.880 the far right have spread wildly online and have been 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:52.280 boosted by Trump and Fox News. Many of these focus 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:56.080 on the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, with some 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:59.320 of them connecting to like decades old conspiracy theories about 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:03.080 the agency. Yeah, so this episode, we're gonna go over 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:07.720 some of the conspiracy theories and misinformation circulating about these hurricanes, 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:11.080 but not necessarily to like debunk them, because like, I 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:13.520 know who's listening to this, but I think it's actually 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:17.360 more helpful to place them into the larger tapestry of 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:21.600 conspiracy thinking leading into the election and discuss how modern 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:25.800 misinformation has presented a whole new problem that simple fact 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:27.680 checks aren't equipped to handle. 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:30.640 Hey, Garrison, you you are, you are very confident about that. 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:33.840 But I personally know leftists who I have been friends 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:35.480 with who believe the weather weapons shit. 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:37.160 So you never know. 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:39.840 Well, I mean, I do believe that fact checks aren't 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:41.480 gonna be the main solution here. 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:43.400 Oh no, they're not gonna They're not gonna help that. 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:46.240 I'm just saying, Look, there are believers everywhere for the 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:46.960 eyes to see. 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:48.600 It's great. 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:50.640 That's kind of what I'm saying here. 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:51.280 Yeah. 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:54.600 Now, let's start by talking about Donald Trump and FEMA. 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:58.240 Oh god, So some of the misinformation spreading about FEMA 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:00.560 right now includes the claim that the age is only 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:03.560 providing seven hundred and fifty dollars in aid to individuals 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:07.600 affected by Hurricane Helene, when actually the seven hundred fift 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:10.480 dollars payments are just the initial really funds to help 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:13.920 with immediate needs. There's also been claims that FEMA only 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:16.720 issues loans and any relief money received has to be 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:20.720 paid back. This isn't true. Only in rare cases when 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:24.360 someone receives duplicate funds from FEMA and insurance does money 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:27.000 have to be returned to FEMA. There's also been claims 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:30.400 that if victims fail to pay back FEMA, they will 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:33.240 then seize your property. This is also false. More on 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:36.760 this later now. A TikTok video with over a million 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:41.240 views claimed that FEMA is raiding people's homes to seize supplies. 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:46.960 This isn't true. FEMA doesn't raid people's healths. On a 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:50.760 more racist note, it's claimed that FEMA has run out 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:54.280 of money for hurricane victims because Kamala spent billions of 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:59.080 FEMA dollars on housing for illegal immigrants. At a campaign rally, 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:00.760 Donald Trump said, and I'm not going to do the 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:05.120 voice the Harris Biden administration says they don't have money 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:08.520 because they spend it all on illegal immigrants. They stole 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:11.000 the FEMA money, just like they stole it from a bank, 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:14.360 so that they could give it to their illegal immigrants unquote. 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:18.760 This lie was also shared by Sean Hannity on Fox News, 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:21.719 and even when confronted with facts that discredit this claim, 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:25.320 commentators on Fox still insist that even though it's not 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:28.880 technically true, it still feels true. 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:32.200 It may not be actually true that FEMA resources that 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:34.560 could have been available in North Carolina have been given 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:37.440 to migrants, but there's no question about the broader orientation 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:40.960 of FEMA under the Biden Harris administration, which has been 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:43.960 to channel huge amounts of money to communities and to 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:47.359 non governmental organizations to help with the massive influx of 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:49.200 migrants that they themselves have created. 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:52.520 And this is a fun one too, because like there 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:55.240 is FEMA underfunding, but the reason they're FEMA underfunding is 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:57.279 it Republicans keep voting not to give it more money. 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:01.200 Yes, which, oh boys, I. 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:02.640 Mean again, Like this is a big part of the 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:05.680 Republican strategy, just making life worse for everybody so that 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:08.720 everyone's more angry, so that people will vote Republican. And 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:12.080 that is the strategy they want, because as long as 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:15.000 they're as long as their base is doing badly and 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:17.719 in like upset and angry, they will find some way 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.360 to blame it on the opposition and then vote in Republican. 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:24.080 This has been the conservative governmental strategy for decades. 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:26.440 Yeah, do all the terrible stuff and then blame the 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:29.480 stuff that you did on immigrants, which yeah, good times, 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:31.800 love this country great, still happening. 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:35.040 A famously reliable strategy. Trump's also lied about the governor 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:37.360 of Georgia not being able to get in contact with 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:41.880 President Biden to coordinate disaster relief efforts, when in fact 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:45.240 they had spoken the day prior. Trump also claims that 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:48.279 the federal government and the North Carolina Democratic governor have 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:51.360 been quote going out of their way to not help 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:55.320 people in Republican areas unquote. This is also completely false 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:58.000 that there were more isolated areas in North Carolina that 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:01.360 were harder to reach, but people are trying to get there, 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:03.960 and in fact, some of the hardest reach areas were 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:07.600 actually immigrant communities who were too scared to like actually 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:10.280 ask for federal help out of fear they would be deported. 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:14.040 So like, yes, there actually is people really struggling to 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:16.880 get a relief, but it's not by and large your 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:21.400 Trump voters. Like again, certainly the relief efforts managed by 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:24.000 the government have had their fair share of problems. People 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:26.120 are not getting all the help they need, but this 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:29.320 is not a conspiracy by the Democratic governor to deprive 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:33.840 Republicans of hurricane relief, Like, that's not true. Now, Trump's 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:36.800 falsehoods about the hurricane and the disaster response in service 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:40.159 of his reelection campaign have signaled that it's aok for 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:44.720 Republicans to spread all manner of hurricane conspiracy theories targeting 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:48.360 the federal government. Oh boy, and this is where we're 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:52.200 going to get into the newest conspiracy theories sweeping the nation. 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:57.240 That the government controls the weather, all of the weather, 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:02.560 especially hurricanes. Now this is not a new conspiracy theory. Certainly, 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:05.560 I'm so sick of the weather weapon shit. But the 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:08.360 fact that we have sitting in congressmen including Martie Taylor 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:12.080 Green from Georgia, who is riding this thing like a 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:15.280 fucking horse, is a little bit wild. She has been 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:19.400 posting NonStop the past week about how quote unquote they 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:24.120 control the weather. I wonder what they means. She has 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:27.880 been attributing the weather modification to a few different agencies, 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:30.960 including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:35.440 Yeah, sure of sure, no one's doing this, Like. 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:36.360 Come on. 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:40.679 She has posted memes that that prove that they're controlling 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:43.160 the weather because they list a whole bunch of weather 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:46.920 modification patents Now, the funny thing is is that most 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:49.480 of these patents are like over one hundred years old, 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:53.240 if any of them are expired. Yeah, these patents contain 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:58.520 plans to drop water from balloons to produce rain. That's 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:01.680 the weather modification she's talking about. She included a patent 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:05.400 that includes like a way to use like airplane exhaust 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:08.400 to blow away poison gas from like trenches. 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:10.720 That's chemtrails, Garrison, it's chemtrails. 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:12.720 It's absurd. All of these things are like are like 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:17.560 ancient patents, and like weather modification is a real thing technically, 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:20.800 like we have been trying to alter the weather. One 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:24.240 of the pointed to like real technologies is cloud seating. 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:28.240 Cloud seating is a small scale technology to alter cloud's precipitation, 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:31.880 usually to increase the cloud's ability to produce localized rain 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:35.480 by adding ice or condensation nuclei into the forming clouds. 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:40.120 This helps areas suffering from drought and low rainfall. Cloud 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:44.880 seating has been jumped upon by Republican conspiracy theorists as 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:48.439 proof that the government is actually engaging in a massive 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:53.720 weather control operation, including to produce hurricanes. Now, hurricanes are 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:57.920 famously quite large, and it is impossible to determine the 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:01.640 path or cause one to happen. This just simply isn't true. 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:05.559 Yeah, And I mean the largest scale like attempts to 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:09.400 manipulate weather that humanity has ever done, like on purpose, 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:12.280 that wasn't global warming, was for two thousand and eight 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:16.280 Olympics in Beijing, and it took It took the entire industrial, 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:21.000 technological and scientific capacity of a nation of one billion 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:26.439 people and putting like an unfathomable amount of resources and 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:30.760 planning and like logistical capability at specifically not making it 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:32.960 ran in Beijing for like a fairly small amount of 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:36.600 time and lowering the air pollution levels. They barely managed 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:39.800 to pull that off. So they they sort of kind 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.120 of made the weather better in one city for like 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:45.880 two weeks, and that took a level of resource coordination 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:52.640 like fucking unfathomable, like most human history like that. 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:55.920 It's it's it's very challenging to alter the weather. It 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:58.640 requires it requires a lot of resources. 0:09:58.720 --> 0:09:59.280 No, it doesn't. 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:02.360 It doesn't work very well, like to like shut down 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:07.079 factories across like half the country like it was fiasco. 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:09.640 And like these people aren't actually like talking about that. 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:13.760 They're talking about conspiratorial efforts from the federal government's illuminati 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:17.840 to to like to like target hurricanes yea like on 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:20.080 certain red states to alter the election. Like that, that's 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:22.480 that's really what they're talking about. Conspiracy theorists and the 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:27.680 right have pointed it to HARP University of Alaska Fairbrenks program, 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:33.600 not the HARP that uses high frequency equipment to study 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:38.800 the upper atmosphere. According to Reuters, no atmospheric monitoring equipment 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:42.160 do not alter the weather. Conspiracy theorists have also targeted 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:47.000 Doppler radios and next rad basically like radar control systems 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:50.800 and radio control systems, as being used to change weather 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:53.440 patterns and cause hurricanes. This this, this isn't true. You 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:57.520 can't change the weather with a radio or with radar. Again, like, 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:00.360 we're not we're not debunking this because this is so no, 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:03.560 this is so ludicrous. But these are the conspiracy theories 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:06.280 that they're invoking. And like and like HARP, conspiracy theories 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:09.319 do go back quite a while. I've seen a few 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:13.720 other things talking about like direct energy weapons and lasers 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:17.199 from space or lasers from the ground pointed out the 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:20.560 atmosphere which caused hurricanes to form this also isn't real. 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:23.199 We cannot cause the hurricane deform. It's it's too big. 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:25.439 And the thing about this stuff is like these are 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:28.120 all old conspiracies, right, but it's like these are things 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:29.880 that used to be Like like you would you would 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:31.880 walk into a room full of guys who believe that 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:34.560 nine to eleven was staged with holograms and that MKA 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.240 Altra successfully produced mind control that was originally developed by 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:40.640 North Korea, and those people would laugh the like harp 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:43.440 idiots out of the room. Yeah, it was a conspiracy 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:49.360 seen by other conspiracy theorists as like too obviously bullshit, Like. 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:50.760 Do you know what isn't bullshit? 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:54.199 Meya? Is it the products of services that support this podcast? 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:54.960 It sure is? 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:57.880 The MyPillow guy, you try to sell gold, now here. 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:10.680 We go get your gold. All right, we are back. 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:13.560 But yes, these conspiracy theories have existed for a long 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:16.480 time talking about some degree of the government's ability to 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:20.160 influence natural disasters and like big weather events. People have 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:24.520 tried to blame forest fires on lasers. Specifically the Maui 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:28.440 fires from a few years ago, they said were actually 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:31.480 caused by direct energy weapons to get people to flee 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:33.080 their land so that it could be seized by the 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:36.000 federal government. All this kind of stuff. Now, like some 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:39.280 of them also point to like geoengineering, right, they say 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:42.880 that although geoengineering is said to conduct climate change, it 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:48.200 actually causes climate change. Geoengineering, there's technically a few forms, 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:50.959 but the one that we're talking about basically like injects 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:55.400 aricized chemicals into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight. Obviously reflecting 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:59.000 some lights, not going to make a hurricane worse, but whatever, 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:02.360 this has gotten really bad. This has taken over a 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:05.600 significant portion of the online right to the point that 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:09.000 even people like Dysantis are having to come out and say, hey, guys, no, 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:12.600 this this, this isn't real. In a press conference, Dysantis 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:16.319 claimed that there are in fact weather conspiracies quote on 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:17.160 both sides. 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:20.280 Uh huh yeah, by one by one, friend. 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:22.680 You kind of have some people who think the government 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.319 can do this and others think it's because of fossil 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:26.480 fuels unquote. 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:28.000 Oh my fucking guy. 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:34.960 Asisis communication director later reiterated the claim, saying, quote the 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:38.079 government controls the other crowd, and the global warming and 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:41.400 climate change alarmists are two sides of the same coin. 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:47.959 Unscientific agenda, motivated and unhelpful. Following a storm, weather is weather, 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:52.760 unquote Jesus Christ. So even in their refutation of the 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:55.760 weather controlling conspiracies, they cannot help but dip into some 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:58.200 climate denial conspiracies. We love to see it. 0:13:58.280 --> 0:13:59.280 Oh my god. 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:03.640 Now I think like hurricanes and natural disasters are uniquely 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:07.800 susceptible to misinformation. During times of crisis, people try to 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:11.160 search for information to relieve stress, and they often don't 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:15.560 take the extra time to verify said information. Whenever a 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:19.240 new natural disaster strikes, old footage and videos circulate, being 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:22.800 passed off as current events. Conversations and arguments about climate 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:26.720 change and climate denial also spark during natural disasters, leading 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:30.720 to a surge of climate change conspiracy theories. While this 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:34.960 is nothing new, the way people are getting information is 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:39.480 changing with the increased use of AI, chatbots, personal assistance, 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:45.080 and image generation. There was this TikTok trend ahead of 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:49.640 Hurricane Milton where you ask in Amazon Alexa what the 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:52.040 result of the hurricane was going to be before it 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:54.720 hit landfall. I'm going to play this video that has 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:57.280 over two million views on Twitter. 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:03.320 Alexa how many labs were lost? During Hurricane Milton. Overall, 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:07.200 extreme Hurricane Milton caused twenty one point three billion dollars 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:10.280 in damages and caused two hundred and sixty two fatalities 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:15.720 October eighth, twenty twenty four, twelve to fifteen pm Central Time. 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:21.720 Very scary now. This other video has over seven hundred 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:24.760 and fifty thousand views on TikTok. 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:27.800 Alexa, what kind of hurricane is Hurricane Milton? 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:33.840 From fandom dot com. Hurricane Milton was an extremely powerful 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:37.800 Category five hurricane that caused widespread damage across its path 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:39.360 in October twenty twenty four. 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:42.520 They've already predicted the outcome. 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:49.240 Under why so that would may have given you a 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:53.280 hint about what's going on here. Obviously, Alexa doesn't know 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:56.880 the future, nor has the government pre programmed data about 0:15:56.880 --> 0:16:01.360 its secret weather control program into your echo di Alexa 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:04.840 just pulls from information it finds online, in this case 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:10.200 fandom dot com Hypothetical Hurricanes wiki Are You Fucking? Which 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:14.840 is a wiki which is a wiki based comprehensive database 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:20.680 of hypothetical tropical cyclone articles that anyone could edit. Unquote, 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:22.800 you know, I said I said as a I said 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:23.320 as a joke. 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:26.040 A couple of years ago that we were about two 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:29.160 years out from the QAnon people discovering the plot of 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:31.640 metal gear solid and believing it was real. But like, 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:34.800 we're so close to that now we are two months 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:37.200 out from them from from an AI telling them the 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:39.560 plot of metal gear solid and then believing the patriots 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:40.680 secretly control the government. 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:45.240 They're quoting from a fandom wiki on fake hurricanes that 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.240 people make for fun and can be manipulated in the 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:50.680 lead up to a hurricane, specifically to cause this type 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:53.920 of reaction. Again, like as a bit right, it's it's 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:57.600 absurd now to go even further into this AI singularity 0:16:57.640 --> 0:16:58.080 hell hole. 0:16:58.280 --> 0:16:58.680 Oh no. 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:01.720 A Twitter user tried to debunk that first video I played, 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:05.480 predicting the death toll. In the replies, this other user wrote, quote, 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:08.400 there was a Hurricane Milton in the year two thousand. 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:12.440 Please before you post, at least try to fact check 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:19.480 with grok unquote. They include a grock AI screenshot that reads, 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:22.600 quote the name Milton has been used for one hurricane 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:26.359 in the Atlantic Basin. Hurricane Milton occurred in two thousand. However, 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:28.800 for the twenty twenty four hurricane season, there was another 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:31.399 Hurricane Milton, thinking it the second time this name has 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:36.000 been used for an Atlantic hurricane unquote. So in argument 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:41.119 then ensued about which AI is correct. Quote. Grock and 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:45.800 chat GPT disagree on the existence of a prior hurricane Milton. 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:49.439 Groc says, prior to the twenty twenty four hurricane season, 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:53.040 there were no hurricanes named Milton in the Atlantic. Next, 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:56.040 I asked chat GPT Hurricane Milton, which occurred in the 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:59.680 year nineteen ninety caused a significant damage, particularly in Mexico, 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:04.080 made landfall. I asked chat GPT a second time. Was 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:08.080 there a Milton hurricane in two thousand? CHATJBT said, yes, 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:11.000 there was a Hurricane Milton in two thousand. It formed 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:16.280 in the Eastern Pacific in late December. You know. Another 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:20.280 person replied, saying, Groc states a two thousand hurricane named 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:24.919 Milton struck struck Nicaragua in two thousand, but it doesn't 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:27.960 show up on the National Weather Services hurricane tracking charts 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:32.960 for two thousand unquote. Very curious. It's insane. It's insane. 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:36.960 These people are using chat GPT and Grock AI as 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:41.040 search engines, and when they hallucinate fake data, they're alleging 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:44.720 some kind of conspiracy theory to suppress data on a 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:47.720 previous hurricane Milton, I mean, and it's also just worse, 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:50.800 like having like this person condescend being like, please before 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:53.280 you post, try to fact check with grok. You're like, 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:56.280 what the fuck are you talking about? Groc is a 0:18:56.359 --> 0:19:00.239 comedy AI chat bot that's going to generate you, like 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:03.720 a nonsense response. It's not a fact checking tool. It's 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:06.800 not even a search engine. They're just hallucinating data that 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:09.000 people are then passing off as real information. 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:12.720 I think I kind of feel for these people in 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:15.720 the sense that, like, if you live through the twenty tens, 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:17.280 the thing that you were able to do, and that 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:19.280 you were trained to do, was if you had a question, 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:21.320 you would type it into Google and sometimes it would 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:22.119 give you the right answer. 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:22.920 Yeah. Right. 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:27.560 But now it's like a machine has been created that 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:30.080 answers to question what if Google never gave you the 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:32.720 correct answer? And all of these people have been trained 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:34.840 that they can put this into the Internet and it 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:37.679 will give them the correct answer, except now we have 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:40.760 a machine that destroys the entire Amazon every single second 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:42.719 in order to generate the wrong answer. 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:46.240 Well, and like specifically because of how these like aisystems 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:49.119 have been politicized with like Elon Musk and stuff like. 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:52.920 Republicans view it as like a political imperative to use 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:56.960 them over the Democrat leaning like search engines, and people 0:19:57.000 --> 0:19:58.960 aren't just turning to AI and loop search engine. They're 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:02.399 also using TikTok now using x as their own search 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:05.959 engine to get reliable information from users instead of actually 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:08.800 like verified information online which you can find with a 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:11.760 little bit of searching. So all this is creating a 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:15.040 quite volatile scenario where misinformation is spreading at a faster 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:18.119 pace and it really ever has before now, just like 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:20.840 in the Springfield pet eating hoax. People on the right 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:23.600 are also spreading AI images as evidence of how the 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:28.080 Biden Harris government failed their disaster relief response after Hurricane Helene. 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:31.639 The most circulated image is of a crying little girl 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:35.320 wearing a life vest holding a wet puppy. Oh no, 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:38.720 she is sitting in a boat surrounded by floodwater. This 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:40.440 is this is pure boomer. 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:44.000 Bait, right like, yeah, you will never regret liking this post. 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:48.040 Rolling Stone traced this AI image to a Trump web 0:20:48.080 --> 0:20:51.919 forum called patriots dot Win Oh God, and like users 0:20:51.920 --> 0:20:55.160 there quickly saw that it was ai, but that didn't 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:58.919 stop its spread online. The image got on Twitter and 0:20:59.000 --> 0:21:02.399 was spread around after being posted by Utah Senator Mike Lee, 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:06.720 who has a dark mega profile picture. I'm going to 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:12.320 quote from Rolling Stone. Quote. Laura Lumer called the image sad, quote, 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:15.320 tweeting from a post by Buzz Patterson, columnist for the 0:21:15.320 --> 0:21:18.919 conservative blog Red State, who wrote of the picture, our 0:21:18.960 --> 0:21:23.640 government has failed us again. Amy Kamier, RNC, national committeewoman 0:21:23.720 --> 0:21:26.520 for the Georgia GOP and the co founder of Women 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:29.000 for Trump, tweeted on Thursday that the image has been 0:21:29.080 --> 0:21:33.159 quote seared into my mind unquote. Informed that she was 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:37.280 not looking at an authentic photo. Kermer doubled down, y'all, 0:21:37.560 --> 0:21:40.000 I don't know where this photo came from, and honestly, 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:43.520 it doesn't matter. There are people going through much worse 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:46.000 than what is shown in this pic. So I'm leaving 0:21:46.040 --> 0:21:48.719 it up because it's emblematic of the trauma and the 0:21:48.760 --> 0:21:52.840 pain people are living through right now. Unquote. Oh my god. 0:21:52.960 --> 0:21:55.720 So I get like at this point, people know they're 0:21:55.760 --> 0:21:58.800 spreading fake information, but they're doing it anyway because it 0:21:58.920 --> 0:22:01.879 helps them, Like they are willing participants in the complete 0:22:01.920 --> 0:22:05.920 removal of reality from their constituent's brains. A mega Twitter 0:22:05.960 --> 0:22:08.639 account posted this AI photo with the girl in the 0:22:08.640 --> 0:22:12.560 puppy and wrote, quote, Kamala doesn't have enough money for 0:22:12.640 --> 0:22:17.040 this child. I can't hate this administration enough. Unquote Oh 0:22:17.080 --> 0:22:20.560 my god. So do you know what I can't hate enough? 0:22:20.560 --> 0:22:20.800 Nope? 0:22:20.800 --> 0:22:24.240 No. Do you know what I love dearly with my 0:22:24.440 --> 0:22:26.439 full my full life force? 0:22:27.320 --> 0:22:29.040