alt Hacker NewsThe Chinese models are censored (too?).
> US is censoring models
For the current Anthropic issue, I’d say that’s more likely to just be generic corruption, revenge, shakdeown, and/or incompetence from the Trump admin. ‘Censoring’ might be technically correct, but I think one of the aforementioned verbs is a better fit.
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> corruption, revenge, shakdeown, and/or incompetence
Sadly, I think it's all four at once.
It feels like the difference is really just the competence level of the corrupt government.
It’s not like the American regime is anti-censorship but pro-shakedown.
china is doing political censorship on specific well known topics - their current government, corruption and workers rights, taiwan, tiananmen square, human rights in xinjiang, old communist leaders and a couple others. not defending them just to be clear. the rules are the same for everyone, if your model cant give you anti ccp views with normal prompting you are safe. they never tried to restrict access to a model thats already public for vague security reasons.
Tbh if we had a Harris admin I expect we'd have some sort of locking down by now.
> The Chinese models are censored (too?).
This is MUCH less of an issue if they're providing the weights though.
They can still be fine-tuned & ablated.