China creates LLM trained to discuss Xi Jinping's philosophies China's Cyberspace Research Institute has revealed it's created a large language model and conversational AI based on the philosophies of President Xi Jinping. The XiBot isn't online, at least not yet – according to a Chinese government announcement it's being tested internally. The service is built on a corpus of government …
There's no way they're going to let this loose for everyone (even just in China) to poke at. They're going to need censors scrubbing the output at all times lest the Xi-bot say anything (gasp) non-Xi Jinping Thought approved. And all LLMs so far are very easy to jailbreak - there's no reason why China's would be any better, especially with most of it being 'acquired' technology. So anyone who knows what they're doing with an LLM could make Xi-bot say the funniest, most treasonous things (and the bar is very very low for treason).
Probably their best use for it is to auto-generate his usual rambling, vacuous, pronouncements on every subject under the sun for publishing, saving the real Xi a lot of work. Though he obviously loves to pontificate, so you'd have to strike a safe balance between freeing up his time and taking away his joy of preaching.
I can see other cases where something similar could work better, though. A Trump-bot would likely be more coherent than the real thing, would lie - okay, about the same amount. But would definitely be much less malicious, and at least wouldn't reek of filled diapers. And a Johnson-bot would be pretty much indistinguishable from the real thing for speaking, at least? And wouldn't force your liquor cabinet open and guzzle all the good plonk.
Hillarious given that the US and Europe are doing just that.
Maybe pay attention to the laws restricting your speech being passed this year, in other words stop believing ands start verifying what you think you know for once in your life.
What you are told by the media and you corrupt authoritarian politicians is not what really is.
Sneak the relevant works of A.A.Milne into the Xi/LLM training set - and those of Benjamin Hoff for good measure.
Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie,
A fly can’t bird, but a bird can fly.
Ask me a riddle and I reply:
“Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie.”
Should, when merged with Xi's (possibly less coherent) political philosophy, produce interesting results.
No they didn't. China stole would be more like it.
The ironic thing here, as with their other LLMs, you can tell they've stolen them from the west. The image AI creation tools. Because its western, attempting to do Chinese, it doesn't understand local colloquialism. So when asked to draw "Duck soup", it draws a duck swimming in soup.
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