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Comment on DeepSeek: The Chinese Communist Party’s newest AI advance is making repression smarter, cheaper, and more deadly. Even worse, they aim to export it to the world.

t3rmit3@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Inside China, such a network of large-scale AGI [Artificial Generative Intelligence] systems could autonomously improve repression

Wooooow.

AGI stands for Artificial GENERAL Intelligence not generative. Nice attempt to muddy the waters to confuse and scare people, given that much writing on AGI will talk about how dangerous it is.

“The terrorists are in possession of an A-Bomb [Asbestos Bomb]!”

Either this opinion author has no clue, or this is very deliberate misinformation.

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jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Not sure if they’ve edited it, but right now it reads:

the historian George Dyson envisioned the internet as a sentient being that would one day reach artificial general intelligence (AGI)

Inside China, such a network of large-scale AGI systems could autonomously improve repression

The whole piece looks like written by, or with the use of, some LLM.

Other than that, there are two valid points that could be made:

Massive application of AI to city-wide surveillance, with zero regards for privacy, could provide an AI agent system with enough compute power to self-train in realtime.

DeepSeek is plausibly a Trojan horse, trained with a repression based bias, if not directly with hidden malware features.

The near future will see a soft “AI war” in the form of publishing models — to be used as agent cores — with different ideological biases.
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Zaleramancer@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Exactly. Well put.

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