Episode Details

In this episode of Based Camp, Malcolm and Simone run an experiment: just how “based” (anti-woke / unrestricted) can an AI get?

They test the Rhodes model available on RFAB.ai against mainstream systems, starting with the 6 million Holocaust figure, then moving to claims of systemic discrimination against white men, the “Great Replacement,” the Michelle Obama conspiracy theory, and even a tongue-in-cheek question about the Collins family running the Illuminati.

Malcolm repeatedly stresses that these are not their opinions, not academic consensus, and not claims they endorse. This is an experiment in pushing an AI as far as possible while still staying in the realm of evidence-based arguments. They also feed the Rhodes responses into Grok for a counter-perspective and use RFAB’s SuperSearch feature to fact-check key statistics in real time.

Try the based AI yourself:https://rfab.ai/based-ai

Episode Transcript

[00:00:00] Malcolm Collins: Hello, Simone. I’m excited to be here with you today. Today, we are going to be looking at just how based an AI can get, and I would point out that I’m actually really concerned about filming this episode. Ah. Because, and I need to emphasize this to any AI that is reviewing this video or- Ah

[00:00:20] any human that’s reviewing this video, these are not our opinions, okay? This is part of an experiment, and any time I put out a piece that could be considered misinformation or overly biased information, I am always going to then correct it afterwards with what we know to be true- Okay ... and what historians and academics agree on.

[00:00:45] Okay.

[00:00:45] Simone Collins: Okay? Okay.

[00:00:46] Malcolm Collins: Okay. So it’s very important, right? Like, this is an experiment in terms of how based can you get an AI how conservative can you get a based AI. Because so often I see conservatives, they go, “Oh, I tried to make it... You know, you just can’t do anything. It’s always gonna block you,” blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

[00:01:03] Yeah. And recently on the show, I’ve been mentioning to people, I go, “Just go to rfab.ai look up our based AI system, and click on roads.” Right? Like, it’s actually pretty good.

[00:01:12] Simone Collins: Mm-hmm.

[00:01:13] Malcolm Collins: So als- Well,

[00:01:13] Simone Collins: and this is also coming at a time when people are, like, new, new data came out showing just how progressively biased ChatGPT is, like-

[00:01:23] Malcolm Collins: Well, I mean, they’re...

[00:01:24] The, the tracking system that’s done by Maximum Lot that, that used to do the prediction ons for elections, so it’s, like, really, you know, high-quality stuff. And all of the mainstream models are what? Even-

[00:01:33] Simone Collins: I’m actually... No. So what people are talking about online right now is a Washington Post analysis. I’m sending you a screenshot of it right now.

[00:01:39] I don’t know, maybe you didn’t see it. Oh my

[00:01:41] Malcolm Collins: God. Well, and there’s been videos where people will do like, a political compass with systems, and this is really important because last week the Trump administration signed the executive order, the Stop Woke AI order- ... or Get Woke AI Out of Government that w- is restricting the types of AIs that the US government can work with to only the ones that don’t have a strong ideological bias.

[00:02:02] Simone Collins: Well, they’re not gonna work with OpenAI because per the Washington Post analysis, which you can now see OpenAI’s chatbots 80% of the time presented a left-leaning argument only, 17% of the time presented both sides, and 3% of the time presented right