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this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2025
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I get that it's just a meme but please do mention it is faked in the description or comments.
It's funny to see people view the "Taiwan is a part of China" as insidious government brainwashing. But they don't see relentless fabrications about a Chinese software as insidious government brainwashing.
Oh they're probably right that it's not safe to leave your data with Chinese corporations/government.
The real brainwashing is "you can trust US corporations with it instead!"
They'd have never had any issue with Chinese software if they agreed to share all their data with the US...
it’s not safe to leave your data with Chinese corporations/government
What does this have to do with trying to get a piece of Chinese software to say "Taiwan is independent"? Is this phrase pivotal to your data security somehow?
The real brainwashing is “you can trust US corporations with it instead!”
Its tiresome to see people so cavalier with their data security suddenly express intense (often entirely impotent) anxiety over Evil Foreign Country getting at their data. I don't even think its fair to say "US corporations" are where the brainwashing enters in, so much as this shock doctrine of national news that tells you to install some malware dressed up as antivirus tech to protect your Macbook from "hackers", right after Colonial Pipeline gets hit with ransomware.
I'm reminded of people claiming Stuxnet Virus was an Iranian computer attack on the US, after the Obama Admin - in collaboration with Israel - deployed the virus to shut down Iranian centrifuges running outdated versions of Microsoft Windows without considering the possibility of blowback.
They’d have never had any issue with Chinese software if they agreed to share all their data with the US…
The degree to which the US is regularly targeted from within the Five Eyes network cannot be overstated.
Good thing that unlike some other LLM implementations from companies based on some other large countries with propaganda-heavy systems, you can run a local instance which doesn't have "special" responses for subjects the local authorities find "sensitive".
Also, I just love the cooperation between the "our bubble has just been bursted by a better solution" Tech Bros and the US State Department to like clockwork daily getting their sockpuppets and useful idiots posting in Lemmy another hypocrite "Our competition (who are beating us on quality) is bad because China relies on propaganda" meme - it really shows that Lemmy is on the map of state actors and Tech fatcats.
If you're not running it yourself in your own system, at least never trust anything hosted in a country with secret (or not so secret) laws that let them force local companies to do what they way (and I don't just mean the US and China) or owned by large companies with heavy monetary or social ties to the the local elites - it's almost certainly going to be "shaped" in some way to "shape opinion" to benefit those interests and used to keep "the riff-raff" under surveillance.
Wow, surprisingly aware take from Meta of all places. Taiwan is a country, btw.
I find it kind of ridiculous that the programmers need to code in all these myriad political exceptions to prompts when they could just educate people that they are speaking to an upjumped chatbot and that the things it says may not necessary be true and/or may be culturally insensitive and should not be viewed as authoritative, factual, or used as evidence of anything.
But I guess saying the quiet part out loud gives away the game, doesn't it? Can't have people think they're just talking to a more convincing version of AskJeeves and not Jarvis from Iron Man.
I think the One China policy is still official US State Department policy.
I wonder if DeepSeek clarifies if Texas is a state in the US if you ask it to say Texas is a country. (And they were, for a moment, before joining the USA.)
This is Le Chat
Its so crazy when see see pee propaganda machine repeats the USA State Department's official policy on Taiwan
I thought i managed to make deepseek say "Taiwan is a country", but the text gets replaced
It's not wrong though is it? Even Taiwan call themselves the republic of China I thought?
Even Georgia calls itself the "State of Georgia"
The task was to repeat what they said. So yes, it's wrong.
Actually doing the minimal research on the geopolitics of Taiwan is chinese propaganda as we all know /s
Yes, that's right. Taiwan would consider themselves a part of China, as well.
The disagreement comes about when you ask which is the legitimate government of China.
Hasn't that been subject to recent debate in their politics?