Chinese AI censors live-streamed Alpacas – beasts with a very NSFW and political back story

Douyin, the Chinese app known as TikTok in the rest of the world, is apparently censoring Alpacas. Yes, Alpacas, the llama-related beasties that produce lovely wool and can be quite cute. So cute that a few Chinese citizens manage to make a little cash live-streaming vision of their coiffed and costumed alpacas on Douyin. …

[Disgusted Of Tunbridge Wells]

TikTok's autocaptioning software seems to think "Tiananmen Square" is written as "t m n square" or "cinnamon square".

I wonder why that could be...

[alain williams]

Overload censoring mechanisms

Winnie the Pooh is banned in China as he was used when Xi Jinping could not be used.

Maybe start using Napoleon Bonaparte instead, then Julius Cesar, then ... - eventually so many will be censored that the censors will start to look stupid.

[Wzrd1]

Re: Overload censoring mechanisms

Mockery has taken many an authoritarian regime down a peg.

That higher peg already being beneath contempt...

[LogicGate]

Re: Meanwhile ...

Are you really putting the situation in the west at the same level as the opression found in China?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence

[Nick Stallman]

Re: Meanwhile ...

China's just gone and done what the West wants to do. The US is envious of China on so many levels.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Meanwhile ...

Er, no, not America. Trumpkins. And the Woke. Oddest of bedfellows, but both ends jusity the means folks.

[Anonymous Coward]

What a lot of llama drama

Alpaca my bags...

[Disgusted Of Tunbridge Wells]

Re: What a lot of llama drama

With apologies to the only bit of Prison Break that rose above the grade of woeful:

Cool, Llamas

They're Alpacas

A pack o' llamas.

[The Oncoming Scorn]

Re: What a lot of llama drama

W'ool I'll be.

[chuBb.]

Cao ni got me through my mandarin oral exam when i was learning the language, at the time the novelty of a western student learning mandarin pretty much meant i could pass as long as i spoke gibberish fluently.

So "wo ai che zhong mao (i like eating panda), wo ai che gong gong qi che (i like eating public busses), wo ai he pi jao (i like drinking beer), cao ni, cao ni, cao ni (fuck you, fuck you, fuck you), wo bu dong (i dont understand), xie xie (thank you)" got me a pass mark

[Anonymous Coward]

The mistake on 啤酒 probably cost you a point though ;)

[Anonymous Coward]

Hong Kong's internet and social media is not (yet) censored as the mainland is, so it's not much of a test.

And to be sure, yes, that also applies to Chinese social media too, which are handled differently on the mainland.

[Anonymous Coward]

There really should be a link to the (NSFW in a Chinese language environment) music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKx1aenJK08

The music comes from the Chinese version of the Smurfs cartoon.

[Quinch]

What, no perennial Llama Song?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRozKfYGFVc

[aldolo]

cute animal

once in a while internet is not a dark world

[John Savard]

The Last Time I Heard That Pun

...was in a poem by Ogden Nash.

Or at least in a comment about it...

The one-L Lama,

He's a priest;

The two-L llama,

He's a beast.

And I will bet

A silk pyjama

There isn't any

Three-L lllama.

...to which someone commented that one can have a fire that is a "three alarmer".