AI Genius Exposes Left Wing AI Doomers
Brian Chau joins Joe Lonsdale to discuss how he uses AI to query large federal databases and uncover government waste and misconduct that traditional journalism misses.
The gist
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Chau says 80% of news stories are solicited, so his outlet queries public government databases directly with AI to find stories no one pitched.
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Long-context AI models running 24 to 72 hour queries can scan databases like HHS and Medicare for financial anomalies that would take humans years to find.
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Chau found that a $21 billion COVID-era health equity program explicitly paid providers to give disproportionate care by race, which he argues violates the Civil Rights Act.
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He traced a single Guardian story on AI and found the journalist, publisher, article subject, and all three quoted experts were funded by the same effective altruism grants.
Also mentioned
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ChatGPT
· "Around 2023, it really went into the spotlight — or 2022, I think — really went into the spotlight first..."
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Alliance for the Future
· "The organization was called Alliance for the Future. We ended up doing a lot of work in repealing the Biden..."
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Effort News
· "We run these long-running AI queries, 24, 48, 72 hours, putting together, connecting the dots between all..."
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