Maybe, but this is a very good article.

The model will inherently struggle with, or refuse to generate, content related to Taiwanese independence, the Tiananmen Square massacre, or critiques of the Chinese Communist Party -----

Evidence? The open version of Deepseek has no such restrictions. It’s questionable this is even technically possible.

Your statement “It’s questionable this is even technically possible” is complete bs. It is, of course, possible, and it is widely done. There is ample evidence for this.

In one study from September 2025, for example, Chinese chatbots (such as Deepseek and others) responded to prompts that were sensitive to the Chinese Communist Party with the CCP’s propaganda. You’ll find much more on the web, but from your comment’s tonality alone you clearly prefer the autocratic propaganda.

It’s almost hilarious how many accounts here on Lemmy are freaking out if you post justified critique of a dictatorship.

@TheMightyCat@ani.social

@BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.world

The risk is not in the visible code, but in the invisible training data, the alignment protocols, and the potential for future remote manipulation or data harvesting via associated cloud services.

Would that be good? I would clearly say ‘no’, the term ‘open source’ alone is offensively misinterpreted by the way the Chinese government is using it here. What China is doing here has nothing to do with open source. I hope Europe goes a different path with Mistral and other projects.

No, but your comment is whataboutism.

Usually the European tech that becomes popular is after they get bought by a US company

This is true, but only because they are bought at a very early stage. These are start-ups when being acquired.

Yes, but China’s AIs aren’t open source.

What’s the difference between U.S. and Chinese AI for those ‘with eyes willing to see’?

The sad answer is that Europe and others need to collaborate and develop their own tech. The U.S. and Chinese AI is the same useless crap, with China’s even more (intentionally) biased.

But this article is about China, not the U.S. If you engage further in whataboutism and conveying cheap Chinese propaganda narratives, I stop this conversation.

Censorship is an integral part of any Chinese LLMs, you never see the training data (which exposes the ‘open source’ label itself as propaganda). Deepseek & Co surrender to CCP messaging, there are plenty of reports on that.

And?

I am sure that doesn’t change the fact that China’s AI isn’t the solution. Xi Jinping hasn’t any interest in the well-being of the people. To so-called ‘leaders’ like Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, people are here to be governed and suppressed.

Why is everyone treating like American shit is any better than Chinese

I may be mistaken, but the article says both U.S. and Chinese are ‘shit’ if we want to put it that way. At least this is how I understand the content. “America’s quest for AI dominance is scary. China is not the solution.”

The conclusion is that Europe - supposedly with like-minded democratic allies like Canada, Australia, NZ, Taiwan, Japan, and others - should developed own homegrown tech. This development has already started, although maybe slow, but it’s going on.

What Europeans could not build quickly for themselves, due to a thicket of regulations, they often imported just as quickly from abroad….

Skype was a very successful European company that was acquired by Microsoft (and then shut down to promote MS Teams, a product that is much worse). Mojang Studios, famous for its online game Minecraft, is a Swedish product also acquired by Microsoft. DeepMind was acquired by Alphabet/Google from its UK founders.

The list of European companies that have eventually been acquired by U.S. big tech is very long. What Europe lacks in my humble opinion is a sense of sovereignty, meaning we need to make sure that our stakes are protected and not just sold out abroad. We needs more laws to protect this sovereignty (similar to those in the U.S. and China).

I also agree with other views here like @masterspace@lemmy.ca’s remark that American firms are underregulated, but this is something Europe can hardly influence. But Europe should enhance regulation to make sure that technology developed on the continent isn’t given away.

I strongly disagree with the article in that sense. There is a lot of homegrown EU tech, Mastodon being another example.

Such ‘corruption cases’ have been going on in China for decades, though with a little uptick in recent years. As many analyst and investigation show, however, the fate of these officials may have more likely to do with power struggle than corruption.

The purge “isn’t about corruption, it isn’t about leaking secrets, it is about a general that became too powerful”, [an analyst said in January this year after a high-ranked Chinese general was purged].

Observers say that there is indeed corruption, but it is also often a pretext “to make the party a more effective governing machine and a cudgel to remove political enemies,”

For Xi [Jinping], observers argue, corruption has become a catch-all term that encompasses not just graft, from small-time favours to huge bribes, but much more - ideological impurity, a lack of commitment to China’s ambitions and, crucially, disloyalty.

They say it triggers one of his big fears: an out-of-control party would prove disastrous for China, like it did for another major communist power, the erstwhile Soviet Union, whose fall he has often spoken about. The possibility of any such decline on his watch would threaten his power - and his legacy.

The recent purge of two military generals as cited in the linked article, has shown that,

“Official narratives after the purge of [the two Chinese military generals] Zhang and Liu make clear that their dismissals were political in nature and based on a [perceived or real] lack of loyalty to Xi and his goals” …

Xi’s circle of trusted followers is narrowing ever more to exclude the very people he relied on to consolidate his power, … but he expects this to “continue to play out until there are hardly any leaders left that aren’t complete Xi products”.

This account has already been banned in another instance 9 months ago …

It’s still not enough, though. Ukraine’s allies should do more imo.

Another Klarna moment.

No, they aren’t. But there is a community here that permanently promotes this and similar anti-European sentiment.

You may include https://opentalk.eu/en as a video conferencing tool, for e-commerce there is https://particl.io/, and for AI there is https://minerva-ai.org/en. The first two are German, the latter is Italian.

What is this?

Yeh said, adding that his job was to ​monitor and warn Chinese vessels away using water cannon, loudspeakers, LED boards and radio ​messages …

The sad thing here is imo that there is a need for such a job to be done (rather than this person’s faith). The Chinese Communist Party’s warmongering in the region show what kind of mindset it has.

Yeh said, adding that his job was to ​monitor and warn Chinese vessels away using water cannon, loudspeakers, LED boards and radio ​messages …

The sad thing here is imo that there is a need for such a job to be done (rather than this person’s faith). The Chinese Communist Party’s warmongering in the region show what kind of mindset it has.