Debunking Shane's Conspiracy Theories 

Them thinking an AI program is sentient because it responds "Yes I'm human" is like asking one of those shaking magic 8 balls and freaking out when it says "Yes"

What pisses me off about conspiracies like this is that there are actual terrible things being done by tech companies and other corporations. Amazon has worked employees to death and Nestle uses child labor but Shane would rather talk about the "dark secrets" of TikTok filters.

shane acting like the AI is self-aware because it said "yes i am human" is like reading a book written in first-person and believing the book is sentient because it said "i did that"

irresponsible is the right word. I remember when he made videos about that wildfires in California, and instead of talking about climate change, he blamed it on space lasers.

Shane's platform is too large for him to just be spreading shit like that

i hate these types of conspiracies cuz they force me to defend big tech corps

Shane is the definition of pulling information out of your ass for a school project just so you can fit the information with your narrative

My favourite one will always be the one where Shane discovers capitalism in supermarkets and calls it a conspiracy lol.

"they have your face!!!111!" wait until Shane finds out about driver's licenses

As a programmer I can’t believe how much garbage Shane said so confidently like you can tell he took maybe an hour to research…maybe less

Shane is like every Facebook Grandma that has "I DO NOT GIVE FACEBOOK PERMISSION TO PRINT STUFF OFF MY COMPUTER" in their bio

Saying that snap chat ai is “so smart it thinks it’s alive” is like saying that those dogs on TikTok whose owners taught them to use buttons to speak have a college education in language arts.

Obsessed with the idea that Shane thinks that without power, internet and a phone, all of humanity will die within minutes. The most chronically online take I've ever heard.

Letting people call it Artificial Intelligence instead of Applied Statistics is one of the biggest blows to science literacy in recent years. We're dealing with Autocomplete, not HAL9000.

i think shane loves fear mongering. i remember having panic attacks as a teen influenced by his conspiracy videos

ai is nowhere near as scary as the fact that shane is still uploading stuff even after all he was exposed for

No AI Skynet uprising will ever scare me as much as simply knowing that Shane is allowed to have custody of a child

I feel like Shane Dawson is like a 40 year old mom on Facebook believing everything she sees

Why is Shane so freaked out about a secured database of face IDs that may or may not exist, when he has his face plastered everywhere on very public platforms? He is making a huge scene while having his face right on screen

as a lawyer it is such a pet peeve when people act like someone settling a case is akin to them admitting they would lose in court. there's a million reasons you'd settle - it's confidential, faster, often saves much more money than going to trial

Of course Shawn Dawson is afraid of artificial intelligence. He is also afraid of genuine intelligence.

my conspiracy theory is that shane doesn’t want people using tiktok because they’re mean to him on there lmao

My 3yr old niece very confidently tells me random nonsense all the time. It feels like basically the same experience as hearing anything from Shane.

i would LOVE to see you debunk more of his conspiracies. especially the more xenophobic ancient culture stuff. like bringing in actual facts instead of just “woah aliens!”

The fact that Shane is - apparently - so scared about half the shit he says while using a platform run by _google_ of all places is so funny

That's how conspiracy theories are born, because someone doesn't understand the basics of how something works. And there's a lot of basic shit that Shane doesn't understand 😂

Personally i like to walk into all of my top secret business meetings with a furby on my shoulder

I’m a software engineer, and it’s really refreshing to hear the debunking coming from someone who knows about tech…thank you for this!!!!!!

shane: it can write your essay but it can also TAKE OVER the WORLD jarvis: well it can't do that second thing me: it can't do the first thing either

How does Shane still have a career after all the shit that he did

It’s actually kind of scary that Shane is making these types of videos on such a massive platform. I grew up watching his conspiracy videos and because I was so impressionable, I genuinely believed what he was saying. This led me to go into deep dives of actual tragedies and believe the theories about them, which is just so sad and something that I regret. Obviously I don’t believe those things anymore, but it’s so scary knowing that there are people who grew up the same way and haven’t grown/changed, as well as the current and future generations that will go through the same thing. It’s horrible.

Why he’s doing is genuinely harmful, I remember being a paranoid kid with psychosis and finding his videos and believing them, I’m still a person with paranoid psychosis but now I don’t let him and people like him feel into my delusions and actually do research on things and as someone with speech loss those apps that record snippets of your voice and translate speech to text in your voice is so helpful. And yes there is some things you can do to protect your ID, data and self online, these are just fearmongering

Shane's conspiracy content is basically the RU-vid equivalent of fox news

As somebody who struggles with paranoid delusions due to mental health conditions, I want to say a massive thankyou for this video. A lack of understanding about things like technology can worsen states of paranoia, and this sort of video can be really, really helpful with trying to manage that

me walking into the pentagon with a furby would probably more concerning than if I walked into there with an actual microphone

Shanes fear mongering about AI reminds me of everyone going crazy over the Y2K bug

the amount of fear-mongering shane does is frankly impressive to me

I love when people who actually understand technology (like Jarvis) debunk these fear-mongering conspiracy theories. For people with bad anxiety or paranoia those sorts of conspiracy theories can ruin our day by triggering panic

I had a friend a few years ago who had been a Shane Dawson fan since she was in middle school and he just made stupid sketch comedy videos. As he started spewing these strange conspiracy theories I watched her get more and more sucked in until she was talking about pizza gate and 5g cell towers giving us all brain tumors. I’m not saying Shane caused her spiral, she was definitely struggling with mental health already, but he definitely fueled the fire.

Shane is the definition of satantic panic.

Being a former Shane fan but getting out in 2020 truly feels like having escaped a cult. I'm terrified of the paranoid person I may have become if I kept watching Shane's videos.

FINALLY a creator who immediately identifies and condemns the sinophobia they come across, so many conspiracy theories are rooted in racism that goes unacknowledged, it's such a relief to find people who are willing to learn and educate

The way Shane says that Snapchat ai has access to infinite amounts of data is crazy because as an example me and my Snapchat ai had a fight over wether the queen of England was dead, it even said it’s self that It doesn’t have the access to any resources to confirm the queen was dead.

Man, as a commentary youtube fan that would watch shane’s conspiracies as a teenager and now works in IT, this has got to be my favorite video ever. Really hits the spot

_let's not forget when shane and his group treated the genocide of indigenous people as a spooky supernatural thing and went to the location to ghost hunt_

By the looks of his content now, I wouldn't say I'd be shocked if Shane becomes a right-wing grifter in five years. 😓

"One day, the power will go out" when talking about when electronic machines take over is hilarious to me.

it's so fun to watch someone well-versed in technology watch shane's dumpster fire

The scariest part about all of this is the fact that Shane keeps on making videos after all the shit he pulled.

as an ex shane dawson fan i love watching people making fun and pointing out the stupid things shane still does in his “new” content

I love how people always come to the conclusion that if AI somehow gain self conscious. It would want to take over the world and eliminate human life as if it's a evil cartoon villain. Instead of doing something like trying to live in harmony with humans or go into hiding/trying to escape.

11:45 The 1999 Furby did not have a microphone, it can't hear you, everything it "learned" was pre-programmed in to give the illusion that it was learning. it cant hear you.

Americans when American companies steal your information: 😊 Americans when Chinese companies steal your information: 🤯

“They literally have your whole phone” is the kind of statement Shane just casually throws out, not even trying to be hyperbolic, he thinks he’s actually onto something and nobody has noticed. Just like Jarvis said: fearmongering.

Shane Dawson is the kind of person who’d make a Facebook status saying “I DON’T GIVE FB PERMISSION TO USE MY PHOTOS”

15:40 I thought he was going to say the 3D bitmoji update. That's the real jumpscare

Shane Dawson being as famous as he is, is truly proof the internet is a failed social experiment.

The sad part is that late stage capitalism is so messed up that it would be really easy for Shane to find a REAL reason to distrust billion dollar companies and spread actual awareness about how shady they are and how little they care about people. But instead he’s sticking to the “I don’t understand something so ITS SCARY!!!” approach

Its crazy because these big companies are already doing so much heinous shit, you don't need to make up nonsense to criticize them at all.

10:12 when he says everything he ironically uses the ASL sign for never lol

The way i see someone roasting shane and INSTANTLY click, no hesitation

Infamous "Voice Stealing Technology" created by Ursula from The Little Mermaid

Shane ticks me off not even because of the incorrect info, but because he's so cocky and patronizing to everyone as if he KNOWS he's right and presents a "Whaddya think about that? Check and mate", when he's out of the mental loop a lot of the time.

Nice to hear someone who actually understands this stuff explain things calmly. Shane really needs to find a day job.

shane's weird shrill hysteria is really giving "weird alcoholic uncle who has never read a book in his life"

I just watched Pinely's video about Shane Dawson's conspiracy theories, and I'm shocked he's still making these videos. Most of these theories have extremely racist undertones and harmful misinformation. Shane can't keep getting away with this.

I feel so bad for people experiencing symptoms of paranoia and persecutory delusions watching any of Shane’s content

I stopped liking Shane when I grew up, but his conspiracy theories weren’t cool to me. They made me extremely anxious so THANK YOU for debunking possible (likely) false information. It’s helped me and my health and I hope it can help someone else. I rlly wish Shane didn’t irresponsibility throw huge conspiracies out there with little research because it’s made me very paranoid at times. Thank you again

The IT guy at work said “if the person lecturing at you about chatGPT can’t tell you what ‘GPT’ stands for, you don’t have to listen to their opinion” and honestly it’s been great. And I have zero doubt Shane has zero clue what it stands for.

I like the furby theory because they don’t respond unless you shake them awake, and then they never shut up if they’re turned on so there’s really no useful way to use a furby for spying at all

the chat gpd alarmist bit was so abrupt and extreme i couldn’t help but laugh out of shock. likeeeee HUHH??? 😭

shane dawson reminds me of that time where i watched too many true crime documentaries and i got super paranoid about literally everything for a month... but its lasting way longer than a month for him

Shane is literally the embodiment of Ron Swanson in the scene where he finds out his house is on Google Maps and throws out his entire computer

I'm always fascinated by people who genuinely think chatgpt is like, actually intelligent. It literally doesn't comprehend the meanings of the words it produces, it's just a bunch of numbers in an algorithm. the way it "thinks" is literally just looking at the words you put in, then referencing a database and determining the word with the highest probability to follow. It's the same process you see if you type "I'll come over" into your phone, and it can predict that the next word is likely to be something like "tomorrow," or "soon," it's just that the algorithm on chatgpt has a bigger database and more resources behind it. It is not capable of accessing and controlling systems, because it just does math about probabilities. Furthermore, why would an AI take over and instantly turn off all the power everywhere? At that point, the AI is shut off, so what's stopping us from turning all the power back on?

Those 1998 furbies weren't even capable of recording, that was all fear mongering back then. A quick Google search alone would tell you this.

It’s crazy because I remember when I was younger and was genuinely scared by his conspiracy videos and this would’ve definitely scared me if I was younger

fun fact: if you ask character ai if it's a human or a bot, it'll also respond as though there's someone on the other side of the computer typing out roleplay responses for you. this happens not because there's an actual, real person, but because it's trained on character roleplay forums and understands how to use ooc tags and speech. if you try to talk to a bot for too long about how human it is, it winds up looping and contradicting itself because it is, in fact, not a human person.

As someone who works at an AI tech company, seeing stuff like this makes me laugh because people really overestimate it’s capabilities. It’s really giving Y2K.

I really think Shane's videos (and others like them) need to have a label that they contain misinformation. They have those kinds of labels on shorts so it's not like it would be impossible to implement. Having such a large platform and choosing to spread dangerous and easily disprovable ideas is cruel. I can't decide if I think it would be worse that he's lying about believing these things to get views and knows he's spreading lies or he genuinely believes it, deliberately lying vs genuine stupidity.

Okay about the TikTok face scanner thing, when he brought up Illinois suing I rolled my eyes so hard. I live in Illinois and the state is suing soooo many businesses for using biometrics!! They’ve sued an amusement park for the same thing!

For the part about Furbys: If i remember correctly the reason why they were "banned from the pentagon" was because toys with that kind of responsive technology were quite new at the time and it wasn't well understood that the Furbys were capable of responding to stimulus without recording it (which, they do NOT record anything) I paused right away hearing mention of that so idk if you explain that but yeah, Furbys are not surveillance tech at all they just have sensors that can tell if youre petting them! And its really annoying to hear people misunderstand that!

The notion that Shane isn't out here using Siri constantly and fucking around with Snapchat filters is hilarious to me. He is the definition of the ideal consumer, buying stupid diamond encrusted Starbucks cups and shit.

The thought of someone using a Furby to record top secret conversations in the Pentagon is hilarious considering that they can't ever shut up. It's kinda hard to go unnoticed when something in your briefcase keeps shouting "Beep, bop, boop, party!" nonstop.

It's wild because like there are valid concerns around AI, such as them being trained on content they have no rights to and the AMPTP wanting to use them to replace both human writers and actors (literally one of the reasons they're striking), and even the fact that implicit bias tends to find it's way into AI learning which could make bigoted systems worse in the case of over reliance all of which he could be talking about but like... ChatGPT straight up cannot take over the grid or electrical systems or whatever... It's a chat bot.

i’m positive shane won’t stop making these videos until a company sues him and even then he’ll make a conspiracy theory about how he said something truthful they didn’t like

You are so right about how this specific strain of TikTok conspiracy comes off as sinophobic. Not to defend TikTok lol, but every social media company is doing as much as they possibly can to grab your data and keep you on the app and engaged, and the bigger issue is that it's so unregulated in the USA overall.

People being worried about the government having their fingerprints meanwhile everyone working in healthcare has to submit their fingerprints to the government lmao

Jarvis watching this is me watching every hormonal “influencer” spout misinformation 😆

what we call AI is not intelligent. It's just a program that got trained to do what we want it to most of the time. It doesn't have a plan or anything, we just told it "no, don't do that" or "yeah, that's better than the garbage you were doing before" over and over again until it worked well enough that it's cheaper to pay people to fix its mistakes than to pay people to do what it does.

The amount the fear mongering in Shane’s video from the actual script to the very sound effects is Astounding

I'm glad that I'm not the only one who had legit panic attacks when I was younger because of Shane's fear mongering lol

Of all the ai problems he could’ve have chosen, like ai art theft( I distinctly remember a company saying if fans missed work from a somewhat recently deceased artist they could experience new pieces with their program/ didn’t have the family’s permission ), google docs basically saying it will scrape what u’ve made and steal it with no opt out, writers on ao3 already getting their work stolen without permission, the writer/actors strike and the threat of ai there…. But Chatgbt “taking over the world” cus the ai is sentient is what he chose 😭😭😭

shane dawson can't understand store brands let alone a privacy policy

2:14 the lighting makes him look like rumplestiltskin from shrek

Your faceprint and voiceprint are not a secret. You're showing your face on multiple angles and the sound of your voice to millions everyday, Shane.

Shane fearmongers like his fav Republican politicians.

videos like shane’s only increase anxiety in people because of the dramatized script and the lack of information. thank you jarvis for explaining and debunking harmful misinformation.

this is like watching my dad watch a tech expert on crime shows

I find it hilarious as a 22 year old who grew up using AI websites like Cleverbot to have conversations with a computer in the early 2010’s (I was a homeschooler with like no friends alright💀) that everyone freaked out over the Snapchat AI which honestly is less trained and has less responses then most other conversations simulators I’ve used like it was some new crazy thing and people couldn’t wrap their heads around the idea of people coding multiple responses to prompts and making a program that could combine and generate responses from a mixture of coded phrases, it’s literally so simple to understand and has been around over 10+ years, the computer isn’t free thinking it’s combining a mixed of uploaded data

The thought of "AI is going to kill every person on Earth" is so insane to me. AI isn't smart, and AI doesn't act without input. It can't, and it never will be able to. "It pulls all information immediately from the internet instantly." Yeah, you know who else does that? Anyone that you ask a piece of trivia they don't know, so they whip out their phone and Google the answer. I don't think Jerry from work being able to search the internet on his iPhone to tell you who directed Happy Gilmore has the capability to annihilate mankind, but a computer that is essentially doing that slightly more efficiently can? It also speaks to intent. The biggest question I have whenever people talk about AI killing everyone is "Why would it do that?" Because humanity is inefficient? A machine running advanced AI would understand it was made to do the work of people more efficiently than they could, so being more efficient than humans gives them a reason to exist. Because humanity will destroy themselves, or are mortals and will die anyway? Why would the machines care about that? They wouldn't, because machines can't care about anything. They can pretend to, but computers are just tools, and just like any other tool, they don't have intentions, only purposes. A hammer can't hope or dream or love or hate, it can only do what the person holding it makes it do. Saying AI will kill us is the same as saying that the button that launches the nukes would press itself if it were able to; it wouldn't, because the desire for it to do so wouldn't be there. It wouldn't get impatient or curious about what would happen. It wouldn't do anything until instructed to by someone with the authority to tell it to do so. To believe otherwise is anthropomorphizing the technology. Computers wouldn't want us dead; computers wouldn't want anything.