Comment on ‘Sputnik moment’: $1tn wiped off US stocks after Chinese firm unveils AI chatbot
thelucky8@beehaw.org 4 days agoIn addition to what @DdCno1@beehaw.org’s comment, this is not ‘only’ about biases we all have. It is about intentionally intentionally built-in propaganda supporting Chinese state narrative. As I wrote already in this thread, the Chinese government outlined its plan regarding AI in its so-called “AI Capacity Building and Inclusiveness Plan”. It reads:
[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.
RusAD@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Yeah, the whole article reads like “China says good things, but actually, they are just bad things in disguise! Chinese AI is cheaper and in some cases better, but actually its all a master plan for world domination! Remember, guys, China bad!!!”
Of course the software created in China would intentionally try to follow Chinese laws. Just as American software follows the laws of the US. However, China made their models open-source, so people can tinker with them and (possibly) make a fork without the censorship, and run it locally without any data being sent who knows where. While ChatGPT, Gemini and all the rest are closed-source, and you have zero control over them, so you can’t even hope to circumvent the propaganda that’s built into those models.
But yeah, Tiananmen square 1989, China bad, let’s all stop thinking about anything
DdCno1@beehaw.org 4 days ago
You’re way ahead of us on that front.