[arnaudsm]

Qwen models have ideological backdoors already. They rewrite history, deny crimes from the regime, and push the CCP narratives.

Even if their benchmarks are impressive, I refuse to ship any product with it. I'll stick with Llama and Gemma for now.

[KronisLV]

> Qwen models have ideological backdoors already. They rewrite history, deny crimes from the regime, and push the CCP narratives.

I can't comment on the particular one, but I feel like this will unfortunately apply to most works out of authoritarian regimes. As a researcher/organization living under strict rule that can be oppressive, do you really risk releasing something that would get you into trouble? A model that would critique the government or acknowledge events they'd rather pretend don't exist? Actually, if not for the financial possibilities, working with LLMs in general could open one up to some pretty big risks, if the powers that be don't care about the inherent randomness of the technology.

[almaight]

If you carefully study the so-called regime oppression, you will find that in the end, nothing happened, and there were no large-scale deaths. But it was massively exaggerated by CNN and BBC only because of the appearance of weapons.

[tokioyoyo]

Unfortunately, when there’s money to be made, corpos with least morals win over the competition.