ads again. somehow. its like a law of nature.
If nationalist propaganda counts as ads, that might already be supporting Chinese models. Ask them about Tiananmen Square.
Any kind of media with zero or near zero copying/distribution costs becomes a deflationary race to the bottom. Someone will eventually release something that's free, and at that point nothing can compete with free unless it's some kind of very specialized offering. Then you run into a the problem the OP described: how do you fund free? Answer: ads. Now the customer is the advertiser, not the user/consumer, which is why most media converges on trash.
These ads can also have ads blockers though.
Perplexity released the deepseek r1 1331? ( I am not sure I forgot) It basically removes chinese censorships / yes you can ask it about the tiananmen square.
I think the next iteration of these ai model ads would be sneaky which might be hard to remove
Though it's funny you comment about chinese censorship yet american censorship is fine lol
There are lots of "alliterated" versions of models too, which is where people will essentially remove the models ability to reject responding to a prompt. The huihui r1 14b alliterated had some trouble telling me about tiananmen square, basically dodging the question by telling me about itself, but after some coaxing I was able to get the info out of it.
I say this because I think that the Perplexity model is tuned on additional information, whereas the alliterated models only include information trained into the underlying model, which is interesting to see.
XAI to the rescue!!1!
... (no, not the unintelligible one - the xplainable one)