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I wondered how long it would take before the warnings against the Chinese state started to appear, in relation to #DeepSeek (see article in the Guardian, from an Oxford professor). I guess it's perfectly OK to give your data to neo-fascist sociopathic multi-billionaires and the largest military-industrial complex on the planet, but not the Chinese.

Going slightly too far down the rabbit hole, you could argue that the Chinese state has done more to lift its population out of poverty over the past half century than any other country. OK, there have been notable human rights violations over the years, but how many people in the USA have been shot, or died from drugs or unaffordable healthcare, or from interfering in other peoples' wars?

Still, I suppose it's good to have an enemy. George Orwell would approve.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/28/experts-urge-caution-over-use-of-chinese-ai-deepseek
I don't trust either of the 'two sides’ but that doesn't mean I will take either of them.
Neither do I and I will be choosing neither, but the hypocrisy is out of this world.
Exactly. The hypocrisy in this world is almost unbearable at times. We consume Chinese-made stuff by the gigaton and let them finance our infrastructure, whilst also condemning everything about their regime. We sanction Russia whilst letting them buy huge amounts of our real estate. We call America the land of the free and it clearly isn't, unless you've got plenty of money and healthcare. Taking sides isn't an easy choice.
There is very reasonable concern about Chinese censorship in their Chatcrap equivalent, but the US oriented censorship is not even examined. Look what fuckwits own these companies.
That's what I mean by hypocrisy. Academics and "commentators" have been wheeled out all over the place today to sternly warn us all that we shouldn't trust China's AI (which we obviously shouldn't) while saying absolutely fuck all about the exact same issues (but capitalist-orientated) with western AI.
It's all bullshit.