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[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago

Ugh, people with those pesky facts, very inconvenient! /s

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 27 minutes ago

Site doesn't load

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 35 points 5 hours ago

Those evil Chinese propagandists! How dare they… *flips through notes* tell the truth!?

[–] hark@lemmy.world 97 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

OpenAI has published a report

Into the trash it goes.

[–] gnate@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

From trash to trash, dust to dust

[–] SippyCup@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Garbage in, garbage out

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 18 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Free toilet paper 😃😃

[–] ButteredBread@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 hours ago

Don't use that toilet paper, it's bad for you.

[–] BOplaid@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

PRC ain't good but this is absurd. Fuck ClosedAI

[–] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 103 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

So... So they ran an information campaign?

[–] turtlesareneat@piefed.ca 56 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 8 points 9 hours ago

Sigh... no, they don't actually.

[–] ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Anyone saying anything true about the american tech industry, or about anything at all, could be a secret asset in the employ of the Chinese government. They can't be trusted.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

The only ones running a campaign is a scummy company that is working closely with the U.S. military and Department of Defense of the US regime.
But you can believe them if you want.

[–] Iusedtobeanalien@lemmy.world 35 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Sam Altman seems to be a massive cunt

[–] mgrecca2026@lemmy.zip 17 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

He raped his younger sister

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

Sam Rapeman.

[–] Kennystillalive@feddit.org 3 points 9 hours ago (2 children)
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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 222 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

Damn the evil CCCCP and their nefarious plot to *checks notes* tell the truth

[–] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 106 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The best propaganda is always the truth.

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 25 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Genuinely why I hate anti-america/anti-capitalism propaganda based off lies. You don't need to lie when just telling the truth is damning. The lies just undermine everything when they're exposed, makes people question even the facts.

[–] Cherry@piefed.social 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Sometimes you just have to have a non exclusive relationship with the truth. /s

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

So that's why they call it a POLYgraph

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I've said this to people so many times, and they get all up in arms making strawman arguments about how I'm supposedly in favor of the thing they're against.

Like, no, if I thought you were flat out wrong and I had a differing opinion then I would tell you that. If I critique your argument on the grounds that it weakens itself by relying on misinformation, then chances are I probably agree on the bigger picture.

Some people, man...

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 3 points 9 hours ago

Don't feed the trolls... or the psyops either I guess. I don't care which category of people who abuse logical fallacies are, I just know that some people go out of their way to not fall into those traps and their statements are much more worth my time engaging with.

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[–] Alpha71@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Fun Fact: the American Govt. has okay'ed giving China GPU's now that they get a cut of the profits. 🙄

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[–] solidheron@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Open ai doesn't understand propaganda or this was their half hearted attempt to say "well the CCP wants you to think like that"

[–] kevinsky@feddit.nl 4 points 6 hours ago

well the CCP wants you to think like that

That is exactly the vibe I got from this. "What they say is true, but you should be OK with it"

[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 hours ago

OpenAI still acts like there are absolutely none Chinese LLM. Sounds more like a fever dream. I wonder if they also did the exact checks on American user accounts and I am quite certain you will also see hundreds of Americans prompting the same thing.

[–] vegafjord@slrpnk.net 28 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Why the fuck make up lies for your propaganda when you dont have to.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

The vast majority here take the word from a scummy company closely working with the U.S. military and Department of Defense.
Bunch of suckers

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 142 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

"Facts that happened to be true"

Please, shut the fuck up. Fucking shut the fuck up. I am at the end of my wits with this place.

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[–] wpb@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

We need a radio free America paid for by the Chinese.

[–] Cherry@piefed.social 2 points 7 hours ago

Like the free Brittany campaign

[–] GhostFace@lemmy.today 7 points 11 hours ago

I think this just shows that it's not stopping. They can say the most ridiculous statements in their defense and everyone just moves on.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 57 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

The real story is not about Chines influence on data center opinion.

Its openai reading conversations of their customers.

I mean we all already assumed they do before but this is so blatend, it smells like manufactured consent. You need to go from “suspect it happens” to “its normal to be like this”

[–] msage@programming.dev 4 points 8 hours ago

If anyone, ever, at any point, expected OpenAI to never use anything in their chatlogs... I don't know what to say.

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