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The original post is from r/Romania, but I thought it would be interesting to share this here too.

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[–] Melody@lemmy.one 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is unsurprising. A Chinese model will be filled with censorship.

[–] TanyaJLaird@beehaw.org 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Replace Tienanmen with discussions of Palestine, and you get the same censorship in US models.

Our governments aren't as different as they would like to pretend. The media in both countries is controlled by a government-integrated media oligarchy. The US is just a little more gentle with its censorship. China will lock you up for expressing certain views online. The US makes sure all prominent social media sites will either ban you or severely throttle the spread of your posts if you post any political wrongthink.

The US is ultimately just better at hiding its censorship.

[–] Geobloke@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

I don't know, I mean Gemini tells me that there is a humanitarian crisis in Gaza

Are you seriously drawing equivalencies between being imprisoned by the government and getting banned from Twitter by a non-government organization? That's a whole hell of a lot more than "a little more gentle."

If the USA is trying to do what China does with regards to censorship, they really suck at it. Past atrocities by the United States government, and current atrocities by current United States allies are well known to United States citizens. US citizens talk about these things, join organizations actively decrying these things, publicly protest against these things, and claim to vote based on what politicians have to say about these things, all with full confidence that they aren't going to be disappeared (and that if they do somehow get banned from a website for any of this, making a new account is really easy and their real world lives will be unaffected).

Trying to pass these situations off as similar is ludicrous.

All commercial AIs are filled with censorship. What's interesting about it is learning what different societies think is worth censoring and how they censor it.