Comment on Chinese ebook reader Boox ditches GPT for state-censored China LLM pushing propaganda

chemicalprophet@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• TehPers@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  With how much hate I see about the US here, I could say the same thing there.

  Calling out people for doing bad shit is kinda normal. It just so happens that China, Russia, and the US do a lot of bad shit, so they get called out a lot. If it bugs you, then just filter out posts by specific people or with specific keywords.

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  • LukeZaz@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    This has two issues with it that are sourced from the fact that most people here are likely from the States or similar. Namely:

    1. How are we supposed to do anything about China or Russia? It’s anger for its own sake.
    2. Criticism of the U.S. is unlikely to make Americans racist towards themselves. Sinophobia, meanwhile, is a real risk.

    This aside, I, personally, am irritated by the quantity moreso than anything else. As I said elsewhere, it’s the same few users, and I find it obsessive. It stops sounding to me like “I want people to be aware of particular issues from China” and starts sounding to me like “I want to bombard people with all possible negativity about China until they hate everything related to the place as much as I do.”

    Thanks to these folks, Beehaw virtually always has at least one post about China or Russia on its front page. Often several. Credit where it’s due; I’ve seen a pro-Palestine post here and there, which I appreciate. But Christ, I’m sick of the rest. Blocks are fair, but I feel like that just hides the issue rather than solving it. I feel like I’m seeing a propaganda mill in action, and I don’t like the idea of just ignoring it.

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    • DdCno1@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Sinophobia

      The only people who claim that legitimate criticism of the Chinese government is “sinophobia” to begin with are 1) the Chinese government, 2) their trolls and 3) tankies.

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  • chemicalprophet@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I started there with .world but simple people clump together to make themselves feel ok and instances reach a point where they just aren’t worth it. It took Reddit years to do that it happens on lemmy instances rather quickly. Oh well. I don’t really care. I just can’t stand posts pumping nationalistic hate. Especially obvious propaganda.

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• DdCno1@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  So factual reporting about Chinese censorship is “anti-Chinese propaganda”? Are you really that thin-skinned?

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  • chemicalprophet@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Are you clear on how propaganda works?

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• MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s pretty weird and I noticed this too. And this news is like… a non issue? Choosing crap over shit is newsworthy only if you specify the nationality of the shit, which is fucked up

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• LukeZaz@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  There’s 2-3 users who post about China/Russia to an extraordinary degree. I could mention them here, but for the sake of avoiding potential harassment (however unlikely) I’d rather not publicly single them out right now. Suffice to say if you spend a decent amount of time here you probably know who they are.

  I find it obsessive and obnoxious at best. At worst, I start to wonder if there are more accounts doing it than there are people behind them.

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