[vrganj]

An LLM is an encoding of a culture, a way of viewing the world.

They are not neutral technology, they are a direct representation of the training set that has been chosen and how they are aligned.

In many ways, they are ideology made code.

If we leave building them to the US and China, only their way of seeing things will be digitized.

I don't like the idea of that.

[wolvoleo]

Yes and also, US and Chinese models are censored in different ways. US models are way too prudish for personal use in Europe because they're afraid to piss off religious investors. Chinese models are too censored on history and current affairs, eg the tiananmen massacre never happened stuff like that.

[slopinthebag]

Chinese models aren't censored as much as you think, you can download the model and run it somewhere else and they will happily tell you about Tiananmen Square. Or heck, ask DeepSeek via Openrouter, it will do the same.

The censorship works kind of like with Fabel, it kicks in before the model responds.