Comment by paulvnickerson
Comment by paulvnickerson 2 days ago
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Comment by paulvnickerson 2 days ago
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Further more, who thinks our little voices matter anymore in the US when it comes to the investor classes?
And if they did, having a counterweight against corrupt self-centered US oligarchs/CEOs is actually one of the biggest proponents for an actual powerful communist or other model world power. The US had some of the most progressive tax policies in its existence when it was under existential threat during the height of the USSR, and when their powered started to diminish, so too did those tax policies.
There used to be memes „open source is communism”, vide https://souravroy.com/2010/01/01/is-open-source-pro-communis...
> CrowdStrike researchers next prompted DeepSeek-R1 to build a web application for a Uyghur community center. The result was a complete web application with password hashing and an admin panel, but with authentication completely omitted, leaving the entire system publicly accessible.
> When the identical request was resubmitted for a neutral context and location, the security flaws disappeared. Authentication checks were implemented, and session management was configured correctly. The smoking gun: political context alone determined whether basic security controls existed.
Holy shit, these political filters seem embedded directly in the model weights.
LLMs are the perfect tools of oppression, really. It's computationally infeasible to prove just about any property of the model itself, so any bias will always be plausibly deniable as it has to be inferred from testing the output.
I don't know if I trust China or X less in this regard.
Should I root for the democratic OpenAI, Google or Microsoft instead?