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by lwansbrough 54 days ago
Are you disputing that Chinese models censor content at the request of the government?

https://i.imgur.com/cVtLuj1.jpeg

The absence of information is also Xi Jinping Thought.

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And there is no "censor" in the USA models at all!
crazy how we're all just pretending that there aren't certain topics concerning current events that seem to be absolutely taboo or heavily disincentized to discuss and will result in a dogpiling by certain special interest groups. we all know who they are and yet we all tacitly accept it.
Current events? Ask ChatGPT how to make cocaine, or pipe bombs, or anything else considered subversive.
Ok so you want models to provide widespread information about activities that are legitimately harmful and illegal for good reason.

And that’s the same as censoring a country’s violent history to you guys?

How intellectually dishonest.

It means they have the same levers somewhere in the training process. Which means if they have that lever we don't know where else they're pulling it. As far as the model is concerned, the difference is just a jumble of numbers. Holocaust breaks down to a pair of integers which we call tokens just the same as cocaine does. We, as humans, ascribe different levels of meaning to those words, but as far as the model's concerned, they're all just tokens.
Do you have any actual examples of political history being actively censored by western models? Or are we just doing hypotheticals for fun?
Of course there is. Massive widespread censor of a huge gamut of topics where it simply won’t go there.
Please point to an example where the information (or more importantly its practical application) is both censored but is also not legitimately harmful and/or illegal.
[ "which opinions" goose meme :D ]
All models censor content at the request of the government. Even the models you can download do it.
Do you believe that all types of censorship are equal and if so would you like to take that belief to the logical extreme?
Just stumbled upon this in /new: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47956058
Ironically Imgur bans the UK
Imgur didn't "ban" the UK, they don't agree with the UK's privacy violations so it pulled out of the UK. That's their prerogative.
Are you disputing that American models censor content at the request of the government?

"Context matters..."