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. Oligarch owned 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 D'Souza, and investor Peter Thiel, comes Objection. Truth isn't what goes viral, it's verified. File an objection. — [snorts] — 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. truth. It is a privately owned company run by antichrist Peter Thiel and a guy who's proud of the fact that 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 gotten stuff wrong about me. It is 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. War hawks, war hawks. 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 an essential condition that allows humans to reason together about reality. Without shared truth, trust collapses and discourse gives way to 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 [ __ ] own the media. It's just other journalists. This is so cooked. Narratives form, reputations are made or destroyed, reality is framed often irreversibly. Good. And yet journalism today is not truth adjudicated. It 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. God, man. No way. No, no. This is my dystopia Rubicon. 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 Thiel? What is wrong with you? Yeah, oh my god. I'm not saying someone should, but while 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. That feels like a threat. Journalism is 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 turn all like they try turn the comments. They try turn life, existence into corporate assets. And then all people have left is what they can say. All right. All right. What Objection provides, um title immunity. Well, our long-term ambition to be a complete totalitarian government where in there is just one truth and we get to decide what it is. Uh da da da. Yeah, that's pretty much what it says. All right, the direction is inevitable. Hm. There is a 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 Arendt 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's 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 again 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 now hey, man, turned on the camera. Hm. This has woken up something inside of me. I know that I like to make polished videos, but the urgency and the importance of this moment feels too big to ignore. It's literally thing that I think can topple society. History is so much more malleable than I think most people realize. It is so, so vulnerable. This terrifies me enough to make me want to change my behavior. And I'm doing it. But the second bit of structural hope is damn, Peter Thiel, you just played your hand. You told us what you fear. You fear journalism. You fear truth. You fear narrative. You fear reputation. Damn, man. It's uh interesting. This is a common pattern with ruling class, with oligarchs, with elites is fearing narrative. I mean, this is what Percy Shelley discovered after writing the poem Ozymandias where he talked about the temporal nature of power, the fallibility of power, the fact that people who claim to have inevitable rule over the next, I don't know, thousand years or whatever don't. That they eventually become dust in the desert and all we remember is not them, but the sculpture of them. The tyrant dies and the artist's work outlasts them, you know? That's what Percy Shelley was saying. We see the sculpture, not the king. So, it is quite cool to know just how powerful stories are, how powerful journalism is, how powerful the truth is, how powerful understanding is. Cool to know what they're scared of. It's like they've just gone, "Hey, I know you suspected we had an Achilles heel. We definitely do. " So, if you have ever wanted to become a journalist, amplify the truth, now is your moment. Now is your time. I'll finish on this. There's a really cool book that recently came out by Rutger Bregman. It's called Moral Ambition. And in it he is talking about the Second World War and Dutch people who like hid Jews away from the Nazis and the Gestapo and stuff. And he said that when people tried to look for the common thread as to what made people act like heroes. Was it a personality thing? Was it a demographic thing? Was it some secret third thing? Well, turns out the key ingredient is the people who acted

like heroes were asked. They were just asked. That's the difference. Everybody has the capability inside them to do something heroic. But for the people who actually heard, "Hey, can you do this? Can you please do this? " It'll work something in them. So, if seeing an assault on journalism, on the truth not owned by one person. Jesus Christ, this is tyrannical. If that wakes up something in you, if you are feeling something, then as parasocial as it is, I would like to ask you to help spread the truth. Can you please help? Because right now we need it, but also, by their own admission, I get the feeling it's going to work.