tyre 5 hours ago

I don’t see why they wouldn’t.

If you’re China and willing to pour state resources into LLMs, it’s an incredible ROI if they’re adopted. LLMs are black boxes, can be fine tuned to subtly bias responses, censor, or rewrite history.

They’re a propaganda dream. No code to point to of obvious interference.

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freediver 2 hours ago

That is a pretty dark view on almost 1/5th of humanity and a nation with a track record of giving the world important innovations: paper making, silk, porcelain, gunpowder and compass to name the few. Not everything has to be around politics.

FuckButtons 1 hour ago

It’s quite easy to separate out the ccp from the Chinese people, even if the former would rather you didn’t.

Chinas people have done many praiseworthy things throughout history. The ccp doesn’t deserve any reflected glory from that.

No one should be so naive as to think that a party that is so fearful of free thought, that it would rather massacre its next generation of leaders and hose off their remains into the gutter, would not stoop to manipulating people’s thoughts with a new generation of technology.

maeil 1 hour ago

"If you're China" clearly refers to the government/party, assuming otherwise isn't good faith.

chipdart 2 hours ago

> That is a pretty dark view on almost 1/5th of humanity

The CCP does not represent 1/5 of humanity.

> and a nation with a track record of giving the world important innovations: paper making, silk, porcelain, gunpowder and compass to name the few.

Utter nonsense. It wasn't the CCP who invented gunpowder.

If you are willing to fool yourself into believing that somehow all developments that ever originated by people who live in a geographic region are due to the ruling regime, you'd have a far better case in praising Taiwan.