Comment on NewsBreak: Most downloaded US news app has Chinese roots and 'writes fiction' using AI
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 3 months ago
The article raises some great issues, but the weird xenophobia is a massive blight on an otherwise good article.
Comment on NewsBreak: Most downloaded US news app has Chinese roots and 'writes fiction' using AI
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 3 months ago
The article raises some great issues, but the weird xenophobia is a massive blight on an otherwise good article.
Ilandar@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Where is the xenophobia?
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
It regularly uses descriptors like “Chinese roots” and “engineers based/born in China” and just leaves them hanging. On it’s own, being from China is superfluous information…unless the reader has a bias against things from China. Ties to the Chinese govt/CCP is a separate matter entirely, and if that’s the connection they’re making they should just say that.
It would be no different from talking about Isreal’s war crimes, but instead of saying “X party is affiliated with Isreal’s govt” you just said “jews”.
Ilandar@aussie.zone 3 months ago
“Chinese roots” was a sub-heading. Did you read the paragraphs underneath? As for why it matters that the application and its employees are from China - pay closer attention to international relations between the US and China. The US banned Huawei because it was concerned about the influence of the CCP on the company and is in the process of banning an extremely popular mobile application currently (TikTok) because it has links to China. The US and China are major foes within the Pacific region: look at America’s behaviour around the issues of Taiwan and AUKUS. That is the important context you seem to have overlooked here.
The most popular news application in the US having links to China is highly relevant when the two nations see each other as antagonists on the global stage, when the US has a recent history of banning popular Chinese products and services because of a purported or real link to the CCP, and when the services themselves are being used to spread misinformation and, potentially, disinformation.
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Yes, the examples I cited were used multiple times. And yes, I am aware of national news in the US concerning China, it was not overlooked context.
The relevant context you might be overlooking are the Red Scare and Japanese internment. It’s not the first time the US has had the looming threat of international espionage, and it’s also not the first time that using a person’s/company’s nationality to infer their true intentions was misguided.
It is not an outrageous thing to say: being Chinese does not make you a CCP operative.
To quote the article,
To echo the sentiments above, most of the article is great journalism. The Chinese job listings, the former connection to Yidian, their use of AI and statements from Pearlstine. All important info to see reported. I just wish they would stop saying “China” or “Chinese” as shorthand for “CCP”. All I can hear is Trump annunciating CHYAI-NA.
I wish the best for the Chinese. I want Chinese people to feel safe when living abroad, without their govt breathing down their neck. I want China to prosper ethically and sustainably.