This is actually terrifying

This is one of the scariest things that

I have ever seen. I don't usually make

videos like this where I see something

and then immediately feel compelled to

turn on the camera, but as of today, my

dystopian Rubicon has been crossed. My

predefined one.

Boom. Oligarchowned AI truth machine.

This is a concept that I have feared for

a while

and uh it exists now.

>> Journalists ruined your reputation. Not

with evidence, with a narrative. And

when they come for you, there's no way

to fight back until now. Introducing

Objection, the first AI tribunal. Former

CIA and FBI agents will investigate.

They gather evidence and make it public

permanently. The AI tribunal checks the

record and renders the verdict. You can

save your reputation in days, not years.

From the team that bankrupted Gawker,

mastermind Aaron Duza, and investor

Peter Teal comes objection. Truth isn't

what goes viral. It's verified. File an

objection

from the team that bankrupted Gawker.

All right. So, if you didn't catch

exactly what that was, it is an assault

on journalism. It's an assault on the

media. It's an assault on truth. It is a

privatelyowned company run by Antichrist

Peter Teal and a guy who's proud of the

fact he bankrupted Gawker to centralize

the truth, to centralize narratives. I'm

not going to get too loud cuz my kids

are sleeping in the room next to me, but

holy [ __ ] man. This is [ __ ]

terrifying. This is really, really

scary. Let's have a look. Look at this

dystopian [ __ ] So, here is their

dystopian website, uh, the AI Tribunal

of Truth. Today, anyone can publish

allegations. almost no one can afford to

challenge them. Objection changes that.

It gives everyone a fast, affordable,

evidence-based way to dispute statements

in the media. Sure. Sure, journalists

get stuff wrong. Sure, the narrative

changes. Journalists have got stuff

wrong about me. It It's annoying. I get

it. But like, this is not a solution. I

cannot stress that enough. Journalism

must be decentralized.

The truth must be decentralized.

I hate this man. To have this controlled

in one centralized place owned by the

most rich and evil people. Oh wow. Here

we go. Without objection. The court

jester rules. You challenge any public

statement. We have the best investors in

the world. Warhawks. Warhawks.

Bailed out banks. The CIA. Our

investigators have previously worked at

these organizations. Right. So these are

just logos that are on people's resumes.

Let's have a look at your manifesto. The

truth is the foundation of civilization.

Yes, truth is not optional. It is the

essential condition that allows humans

to reason together about reality.

Without shared truth, trust collapses

and discourse gives way too force. This

is how all of these evil fascist people

work. They say something that is like

broad enough to be true and then they

just skip ahead to like the worst

premise ever. They'll be like, "Hey,

killing people is wrong." That's why

we've decided to own every bullet and

put AI in every bullet. So if it kills

you, we know,

hey, the truth is wrong. So we're going

to own the truth. Before courts rule,

before regulators act, before markets

move, stories are published, narratives

form, reputations are made or destroyed.

Reality is framed often irreversibly.

This is so corrupt. It is basically just

saying, "Hey, what's the last system

that we can't control?" Oh yeah, people

talking, the media. It's like all of

these things before courts rule. It's

like if you are a billionaire, you can

buy the courts, you can control the

courts. Before regulators act, you can

lobby the regulators. Before markets

move, you are the market. Before stories

are published. Hell, I mean like half of

them freaking own the media. It's just

other journalists.

This is so cooked. Narratives formed,

reputations are made or destroyed.

Reality is framed often irreversibly

good. And yet journalism today is not

truth adjudicated. and moves at the

speed of the internet without a shared

process for testing claims. This is a

problem, but this is not the solution.

This is so not the solution. So, we

decided to own the truth. Oh, man. No

way. No. No. No.

This This is my dystopia Rubicon. I've

It's written down, dog. Courts were

built for truth, but cannot scale. I

hate this language, but cannot scale.

Shut up. For centuries, courts served as

society's truth adjudication engine.

That's like partially true. There's also

like truth that gets adjudicated by

communities. And the courts fail people

a lot of the time. Laws aren't perfect.

Courts aren't perfect. OJ definitely

killed his wife. What are we doing here,

guys? But it's also like the modern

court of public opinion is a reaction to

a broken court system or like an

inaccessible court system that people

who don't have enough money which

structurally was caused by you you

freaking VC backer dorks. So people have

to bypass these exclusive and expensive

things in order to actually just get

some sort of freaking modicum of

justice. And justice is so rare. These

people have enough. They have so much.

They have more money than God. They have

more power. They have they own

everything. Why do you want more Peter

Teal? What is wrong with you? Oh my god.

I'm not saying someone should, but why

journalism is our first focus?

There is so much hope in that one

sentence for everybody else. Journalism

is where truth breaks now and where it

can be repaired fastest. It feels like a

threat. Journalism's truth

infrastructure and every downstream

system improves. Oh my god, this is so

paternalistic of these evil, evil

people. They make this stuff. They lobby

governments. They like try to turn all

like they try to turn the commons they

try to turn life existence into

corporate assets and then all people

have left is what they can say all right

all right all right what objection

provides um total immunity well our

long-term ambition to be a complete

totalitarian government wherein there is

just one truth and we get to decide what

it is

yeah it's pretty much what it says all

right the direction is inevitable. H

there is a um there's a propaganda

technique called inevitable victory.

It's so funny. It's like it's not even

like that thinly masked. I've been

reading a lot of Hannah Arent lately

because I think everything that she

writes is incredibly relevant to this

moment. But there's this one line that's

been sticking out to me. It's like a

throwaway line in Origins of

Totalitarianism where she is describing

Hitler. For context, if you don't know,

she fled the Nazis. Amazing political

scientist, incredible historian. Anyway,

the way that she describes the amount of

time that Hitler was in power, she talks

about it as the 12 years that Hitler's

thousand-year Reich had managed to last.

The 12 years of his thousand. So, when I

read the direction is inevitable, I'm

like, "All right, your predecessor got

1.2% of the way towards his backing

goal. What are you going to do? You

don't scare me, dog." We begin with

journalism because that's where truth

now lives and where it is most at risk.

How convenient. We begin with the fourth

estate, something that we don't own. All

right, let's end on hope. Two bits of

hope. The first is small and personal,

and the second is structural and

actually massive. And I think it's

really, really cool. All right, so the

first small personal one, I have

struggled with perfectionism for a long

time, particularly on YouTube. And right