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I haven't tried kagi assistant, but try it at deepseek.com. All models at this point have various politically motivated filters. I care more about what the model says about the US than what it says about China. Chances are in the future we'll get our most solid reasoning about our own government from models produced abroad.
False equivalency. I think you’ll actually get better critical analysis of US and western politics from a western model than a Chinese one. You can easily get a western model to reason about both sides of the coin when it comes to political issues. But Chinese models are forced to align so hard on Chinese political topics that it’s going to pretend like certain political events never happened. E.g try getting them to…
Try for example to persuade GPT to argue that the workers doing data labeling in Kenya should be better compensated relative to the programmers in SF, as the work they do is both critical for good data for training and often very gruesome, with many workers getting PTSD from all the horrible content they filter out.
I couldn't, about a year ago. The model always tried to argue in favor of the status quo because of market forces - which is, of course, axiomatic ideology.