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Dec. 4, 2024

Chinese AI Censorship: When Your Robot Bartender Won't Talk About Tank Man

Look, I’m nursing my third bourbon of the morning - doctor’s orders for dealing with tech news these days - and trying to wrap my pickled brain around this latest development. HuggingFace’s CEO is worried about Chinese AI models spreading through the open source community like a digital virus, carrying censorship payloads wrapped in friendly code.

And you know what? Between sips of Wild Turkey, I’m starting to think he might be onto something.