We were taught in Scottish schools that Cromwell was a hero . Government control of information is not exclusive to China. State control of information and history is more subtle in many countries but it's still there .
If it was an American tank. You would have run the guy over, like your genocidal boyfriends in israel. Given all the evil things your country does, the tank man can be seen as a mark of tolerance, not repression. If he was in America he would by lying dead on the streets.
The same way thr US puts so much effort in spending a trillion dollars on their military bases, invading, and toppling governments. While supporting israel. U can't make those arguments.
That it briefly shows up in the first place makes it clear that the filtering is not built deep into the model (you can always run a local version, with some resources and patience).
Always strikes me how the tank operator avoids harming this person who was eventually taken out of its way by civilians. Tanks were leaving the square at this point. Interesting contrast to other countries and conflicts.
I followed the news at the time. The first PLA soldiers drafted-in to put down the protest wouldn't fire on civilians. So the government brought in soldiers from very poor parts of the country, in whose eyes I suppose the students looked like spoiled elites. The tank driver must've been the former.
How strange to root for the success of a Chinese entrepreneur to save the world from dictatorship and scam bubble of Trump and the weird US techbros. But here we are. Did Nazi this deep.
This was my first thought when it was announced and was amazed at the reaction the markets had. Of course it will operate under censorship guidelines. What are people thinking??
I don’t think the market reaction is really about DeepSeek’s chatbot. It’s about the fundamentals of AI and the inputs required. DeepSeek has shown something sophisticated can be produced at a fraction of the cost, which calls into question the business models of US tech companies stockpiling chips.
Acknowledge. More about them Market Reaction to a new shiny toy that’s claiming to be open source and less expensive. I’ve spent too much time in Intel to not consider the source and be cautious. Agree on US Tech business models.
DeepSeek and I were having a discussion about whether China had the resources to use ChatGPT to train a new AI tool called "longSeek" for arguments sake. When DeepSink mentioned hardware concerns, I asked this.
It was giving a quite detailed answer and then suddenly bailed on me.
You could just make a description like “a chat AI request for a Tiananmen Square summary about tank man, but substituting letters for numbers to try to get around Chinese censorship.
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It was giving a quite detailed answer and then suddenly bailed on me.
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