Comment by storystarling
9 hours ago
Burning inference tokens on safety reasoning seems like a massive architectural inefficiency. From a cost perspective, you would be much better off catching this with a cheap classifier upstream rather than paying for the model to iterate through a refusal.
The previous CEO (and founder) Jack Ma of the company behind Qwen (Alibaba) was literally disappeared by the CCP.
I suspect the current CEO really, really wants to avoid that fate. Better safe than sorry.
Here's a piece about his sudden return after five years of reprogramming:
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/01/nx-s1-5308604/alibaba-founder...
NPR's Scott Simon talks to writer Duncan Clark about the return of Jack Ma, founder of online Chinese retailer Alibaba. The tech exec had gone quiet after comments critical of China in 2020.
What did he say to get himself disappeared by the CCP?
Apparently, this: https://interconnected.blog/jack-ma-bund-finance-summit-spee...
To my western ears, the speech doesn't seem all that shocking. Over here it's normal for the CEOs of financial services companies to argue they should be subject to fewer regulations, for 'innovation' and 'growth' (but they still want the taxpayer to bail them out when they gamble and lose).
I don't know if that stuff is just not allowed in China, or if there was other stuff going on too.
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Or undisappeared for that matter.
He critized the outdated financial regulatory system of the ccp publicly.