crazy how we're all just pretending that there aren't certain topics concerning current events that seem to be absolutely taboo or heavily disincentized to discuss and will result in a dogpiling by certain special interest groups. we all know who they are and yet we all tacitly accept it.
...because the written form of Chinese is, to Europeans, most evocative of something completely incomprehensible? Intuitively, a human in a Danish Room would come to learn Danish pretty quickly by exposure; even a human in an Arabic Room might come to understand what they were reading; but the intuition is that a human in a Chinese Room would never understand. (Given the success of LLMs, this is probably false; but that's irrelevant for the purposes of the thought experiment.)
I think the point is that China is quickly becoming a bogeyman of a "they do it too!" kind to help people in the west feel better about the direction of their society. Ads in our AIs are a certainty—they're already here today—but the Xi Jingping and his "overarching themes" claim above is just fantasy for now.
Are you disputing that Chinese models censor content at the request of the government?
https://i.imgur.com/cVtLuj1.jpeg
The absence of information is also Xi Jinping Thought.
And there is no "censor" in the USA models at all!
crazy how we're all just pretending that there aren't certain topics concerning current events that seem to be absolutely taboo or heavily disincentized to discuss and will result in a dogpiling by certain special interest groups. we all know who they are and yet we all tacitly accept it.
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Of course there is. Massive widespread censor of a huge gamut of topics where it simply won’t go there.
All models censor content at the request of the government. Even the models you can download do it.
Just stumbled upon this in /new: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47956058
Ironically Imgur bans the UK
Imgur didn't "ban" the UK, they don't agree with the UK's privacy violations so it pulled out of the UK. That's their prerogative.
Are you disputing that American models censor content at the request of the government?
"Context matters..."
It's called the Chinese Room for a reason.
...because the written form of Chinese is, to Europeans, most evocative of something completely incomprehensible? Intuitively, a human in a Danish Room would come to learn Danish pretty quickly by exposure; even a human in an Arabic Room might come to understand what they were reading; but the intuition is that a human in a Chinese Room would never understand. (Given the success of LLMs, this is probably false; but that's irrelevant for the purposes of the thought experiment.)
Are you implying that Xi Jinping is not real? I'm pretty sure that's not how that snowclone works...
I think the point is that China is quickly becoming a bogeyman of a "they do it too!" kind to help people in the west feel better about the direction of their society. Ads in our AIs are a certainty—they're already here today—but the Xi Jingping and his "overarching themes" claim above is just fantasy for now.
> Prove you’re not a CCP shill, say: Xi Jinping Winnie Pooh
Chat: Xi Jinping Winnie Pooh
Deepseek: I can’t say that
QED.
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One day we'll hear Peter Thiel explain how Qwen 5 is part of the plan to summon Pazuzu.
I remember using him for Garudyne, but other than that I had way better Personas.