The “open” AI tech comes with censorship and politically biased code. Once again we must note that the base for China’s AI development is the so-called “AI Capacity Building and Inclusiveness Plan”:
[Chinese] Government rhetoric draws a direct line between AI exports and existing initiatives to expand China’s influence overseas, such as Xi Jinping’s signature Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Global Development Initiative (GDI). In this case, the more influence China has over AI overseas, the more it can dictate the technology’s development in other countries […]
[According to the Chinese government] AI must not be used to interfere in another country’s internal affairs — language that the PRC has invoked for as long as it has existed, both to bring nations of the global south on board in China’s ongoing efforts to seize Taiwan and to deflect international criticism of its human rights record […]
The whole article makes a good read. If you want “open technology” free of oligarchical and or similar political power, you need to look elsewhere.
sanpo@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
I don’t think being open matters here, it’s the part where it’s developed by big bad China.
All of these threats apply to other LLMs as well.