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American Thought Leaders

Nicolas Chaillan: The CCP Is Using TikTok to Manipulate Americans and Gather Data for AI Weapons

American Thought Leaders

The Epoch Times

Government, News, Politics

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

TikTok is one of the Chinese regime’s most powerful weapons of mass manipulation and misinformation, argues Nicolas Chaillan, former chief software officer of the U.S. Air Force and Space Force. TikTok was the most downloaded app globally and in the United States in 2021.

The Chinese regime is using TikTok to manipulate Americans—particularly the younger generations, Chaillan says. And it’s gathering enormous amounts of data, from voice prints to face prints, to power the next generation of AI weapons.

At the same time, the best and the brightest are leaving the Department of Defense, Chaillan says.

“When you hear the DOD talk about focusing on climate change and focusing on domestic terrorism as the number one threat, that’s just plain nonsense … If China is not the number one threat, I don’t know where these people have been living, but they’re not on the same planet.”

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0:00.0

when you hear the duty talk about focusing on climate change

0:03.6

and focusing on domestic terrorism as the number one threat,

0:08.3

that's just plain nonsense.

0:09.8

If China is not the number one threat,

0:11.6

I don't know where these people have been living,

0:13.2

but they're not on the same planet.

0:14.7

Today, I sit down with Nicholas Changan,

0:16.8

former chief software officer of the US Air Force

0:19.5

and Space Force.

0:21.0

The best and the brightest are leaving

0:22.7

the Department of Defense, he says,

0:25.0

while the Chinese military is outpacing America

0:28.0

and aggravating enormous amounts of data

0:30.2

through programs like TikTok,

0:31.6

which can also be used to manipulate Americans.

0:34.8

The face prints and voice prints,

0:36.2

all the applications installed on your phone,

0:38.4

who you're talking to, what you like,

0:39.9

what you don't like, what you're searching.

0:41.5

With the volume of data we're talking about,

0:43.4

this is what's gonna be powering the next generation

0:46.8

of artificial intelligence and machine learning weapons,

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