Sounds like the average lemmy.ml user. Very quick to criticise the west. Completely ‘objective’ when discussing China.
And very, VERY fond of genocide denial and whataboutism. They’re exhausting to talk to.
I can’t speak to lemmy.ml but I can say despite having a lot of issues with China I also find it difficult to criticize because I never lived there or anywhere similar but criticizing and noting where the US can improve is something I’ve spent a lot of time to understand the nuances and challenges of.
It’s not that I want to defend China just that I feel like I never have a great picture of what’s happening there.
All this being said fuck them for their treatment of uighur muslims. That I do feel confident about.
It’s not that they don’t criticise, it’s that when something negative shows up, they defend it showing several biased sources, as if they meant anything, or jump into whataboutism.
Whenever someone posts something negative and promotes discussion or critique about it, lo and behold, see how this other country is also horrible and see the good things mine does. Like dude, cool, let us discuss this and you can create another post for those things. It’s pretty clear that they want to divert the conversation.
I’ve got a friend from Shenzhen who thinks Xi is the worst thing since Mao. If I said that to a lemmy.ml user I’d be banned from the instance.
Hell, I got suspended for 4 days (and trolled to fuck) when I suggested someone was a tankie (literally a communist who believes in using tanks to kill people).
Silly thing is I’m a fucking socialist! I believe in all the key tenets of socialism. But heaven forbid you criticise DPRK or China. They’ll chew you apart.
There’s plenty of fucking countries where from socialism has worked and there’s plenty where some level of socialism currently works.
I mentioned the Nordic Model and instead of them agreeing it was a good step they spent their time ‘educating’ me on how it’s not true socialism and it’s just as bad as the US.
Fucking boggles the mind. They genuinely seem to think Stalin was a saint and Kim is a benevolent, democratically elected leader. If anyone thinks otherwise it’s due to Western propaganda.
I know people living in China - they ain’t fucking happy!
Just wait until AI starts rewriting history, changing historical facts, and purposely misinforms people.
It’s only a matter if time before AI will deny the Holocaust, Black slaves in the US, and the numerous African genocides.
Your computer just explodes killing you instantly.
What a tragic accident…
The Google chatbot is already doing just that.
Not just that, remember it’s just an LLM. It quantifies which tokens (or words and letters, if you will) come up next. It doesn’t matter if it’s factual or fictional - if it’s good enough, it does that.
LLMs are very confident in lying. I once asked it if there is a magic method to catch magic method calls in PHP - it told me its __magic. Lo and behold, there is and never was such a method. That’s my first and last time I tried it, and there ain’t gonna be a second time in the near future.
I asked Snapchats AI thing if it had internet. Yes, it very confidently proclaimed. This was around when Tears of the Kingdom had been released on the switch so I asked what the latest Zelda game was and it was something much much older. Of course that doesn’t necessarily mean anything so I kept prodding for other recent news and was provided nothing.
My partner asked the same of it and was told very confidently that no, it does in fact not have access to the internet and proceeded to give some long-winded explanation of why.
Can’t trust those things to say anything correct since they’re just doing what they’ve been constructed to do. String words together into sentences.
It can be useful in learning the basics of technology that’s completely unfamiliar to you.
It’s kinda like how it’s fine to use a wikipedia article as a starting point for research on a subject. But it’s not a good idea to use wikipedia as an authoritative source on a subject.
It’s also useful as a reminder for for technology you haven’t used in a while. You can fairly quickly get the ordering of the parameters of a well known method and be on your way a lot faster than a google search or going back through your code to find where you’ve done it before.
It’s also good for mundane tasks like making a class that’ll handle a specific JSON request or handle some data coming from a table in the DB. You know the things where you’re just copying and pasting some property names and entering the corresponding types. Just put in “class for: {“blah”: 69 }” or whatever and save a little time.
But yeah it’s not going to know anything too technical, it’s not going to know anything about less common problems, it’s not going to know the best algorithm to use, etc. But if you’re just using it for some basic ass shit, it works well enough.
I don’t think anyone is surprised, I feel like anyone who criticizes the government there has a very legitimate threat of getting disappeared.
What is wrong with the Taiwanese government?
What happens if you challenge it? Like “no it’s not, Taiwan is a sovereign country separate from China”
I’d imagine if the user was in China, it’d be an automatic deduction of social credit score, or a visit from the secret police.
