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

• DdCno1@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Try making that argument in a court of law. No, intent matters.

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  • LukeZaz@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are we in a court?

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    • DdCno1@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Please don’t be deliberately obtuse. You can do better than that.

      In case it was unclear, the training material of most LLMs will almost inevitably include propaganda. If that propaganda is not deliberately added to the data, then that’s unintentional, a byproduct of poor vetting at worst. That’s obviously fundamentally different from an LLM being both deliberately trained with propaganda and having hard checks built into it that filter out certain keywords the government doesn’t want citizens to inform themselves about, which is what China is doing. You can’t honestly believe that the two are the same.

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      • LukeZaz@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        In what way is it meaningfully different? Does the intent of the creators of an LLM – a kind of system notorious for being a black box – fundamentally change the outcomes of what it says? It’s spouting propaganda either way.

        Please don’t be deliberately obtuse. You can do better than that.

        Condescending attitude aside, don’t bring up an irrelevant scenario if you don’t want me to point out its irrelevance.

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