Man, the Chinese government must be a bunch of saints that you must go back 35 years to dig up something heinous that they did.
1. Xinjiang detention and surveillance (2017-ongoing) 2. Hong Kong National Security Law (2020-ongoing) 3. COVID-19 lockdown policies (2020-2022) 4. Crackdown on journalists and dissidents (ongoing) 5. Tibet cultural suppression (ongoing) 6. Forced organ harvesting allegations (ongoing) 7. South China Sea militarization (ongoing) 8. Taiwan military intimidation (2020-ongoing) 9. Suppression of Inner Mongolia language…
Let's not forget about the smaller things like the disappearance of Peng Shuai[0] and the associated evasiveness of the Chinese authorities. It seems that, in the PRC, if you resist a member of the government, you just disappear.
The American LLMs notoriously have similar censorship issues, just on different material
They've been quietly undoing a lot this IMO - gemini on the api will pretty much do anything other than CP.
Source? This would be pretty big news to the whole erotic roleplay community if true. Even just plain discussion, with no roleplay or fictional element whatsoever, of certain topics (obviously mature but otherwise wholesome ones, nothing abusive involved!) that's not strictly phrased to be extremely clinical and dehumanizing is straight-out rejected.
Helping prevent racism and Nazi propaganda at scale protects actual people. Censoring tiananmen square or the January 6th insurrection just helps consolidate power for authoritarians to make people's lives worse.
Putin accused Ukrainians of being nazis and racists as justification to invade them. The problem with censorship is your definition of a nazi is different than mine and different than Putin's, and at some end of the spectrum we're going to be enabling fascism by allowing censorship of almost any sort, since we'll never agree on what should be censored, and then it just gets abused.
Why is this surprising? Isn't it mandatory for chinese companies to do adhere to the censorship? Aside from the political aspect of it, which makes it probably a bad knowledge model, how would this affect coding tasks for example? One could argue that Anthropic has similar "censorships" in place (alignment) that prevent their model from doing illegal stuff - where illegal is defined as something not legal (likely?) i…
> Why is this surprising? Because the promise of "open-source" (which this isn't; it's not even open-weight) is that you get something that proprietary models don't offer. If I wanted censored models I'd just use Claude (heavily censored).
> Because the promise of "open-source" (which this isn't; it's not even open-weight) is that you get something that proprietary models don't offer. If I wanted censored models I'd just use Claude (heavily censored).
You're saying it's surprising that a proprietary model is censored because the promise of open-source is that you get something that proprietary models don't offer, but you yourself admit that this model is neither open-source nor even open-weight?
The American LLMs notoriously have similar censorship issues, just on different material
I've yet to encounter any censorship with Grok. Despite all the negative news about what people are telling it to do, I've found it very useful in discussing controversial topics. I'll use ChatGPT for other discussions but for highly-charged political topics, for example, Grok is the best for getting all sides of the argument no matter how offensive they might be.
Because something is offensive does not mean it reflects reality
This reminds me of my classmates saying they watched Fox News “just so they could see both sides”
afaiu not all of their models are open weight releases, this one so far is not open weight (?)
What would a good coding model to run on an M3 Pro (18GB) to get Codex like workflow and quality? Essentially, I am running out quick when using Codex-High on VSCode on the $20 ChatGPT plan and looking for cheaper / free alternatives (even if a little slower, but same quality). Any pointers?
They are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on data centers filled with GPUs that cost more than an average car and then months on training models to serve your current $20/mo plan. Do you legitimately think there's a cheaper or free alternative that is of the same quality?
I guess you could technically run the huge leading open weight models using large disks as RAM and have close to the "same quality" but with "heat death of the universe" speeds.