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It will be banned or heavily regulated in China, you can be sure of that.

LLMs made outside China might get highly regulated. After all, how do you stop GPT from knowing about the Tianamen Square Massacre.

But LLMs or chatbots made in China, with training data and prompt tuned to fit party idiology and policy are the ultimate propaganda tool. It's like gving the whole world a friendly, helpful but brainwashed party member to talk to, form emotional connections to, etc.

Give it a couple months and you will be able to download the free app.

Not just that, but it will also understand what everybody is talking about on WeChat etc. It can scan every word that 1.4 billion people say to each other and alert the authorities whenever a "newly forbidden topic" is even insinuated. No "river crabs" anymore, the GPT would understand it!

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