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What exactly is the situation of the Uyghur in China's Xinjiang since 2014 up until now? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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My question aims to know what kind of procedures did the Chinese government (allegedly) take since 2014 in Xinjiang, and why to begin with. And what can we know about the region in the current time, like can a random tourist go and see with their own eyes the truth, and maybe film it ?

There are Youtube videos and a Wikipedia page "documenting" human rights infringements, while China and the Marxist forums deny anything harmful. Now that almost nobody is bringing it up, I want to know what was legitimately documented. Investigating the origins and later developments of the case on my own would be so hard.

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Large Language Models (LLMs) aren’t truth machines. They’re garbage in, garbage out. The input to English-language models is largely English-language texts from Five Eyes countries, with all the disinformation and bias that that entails. This is an especially poor topic to engage LLMs with.

[–] GiorgioPerlasca@lemmy.ml -2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's right. I actually asked to the LLMs in Chinese and then translated the results.

Since I don't read or speak Chinese, I have to use workarounds like this to access that knowledge.

[–] m532@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

They are never truth machines, the input language won't change that.