China rolls out large language model based on Xi Jinping Thought
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HN can call him virtual Xi, or "V-Xi" for short! I'm sure he can "add value" to startup ideas.
More seriously, surely this is someone in the CCP's discordant art project masquerading as a serious party effort. In which case - what's the bet heads will roll when he wakes up to the fact he's been Pooh-beared again?
I'd like to ask it: "When your whole country wants you dead, your only friends are dictators, your economy is tanking, the youth are unemployed, capital exodus is matched only by brain drain, macro-demographic impacts of bad policy are eviscerating the size of your workforce and the age of your population, and your remnant control rests upon cutting off heads, could it perhaps be time to retire?"
Yes, but it's not going to happen. One of the (many) problems with a dictatorship is the lack of rule of law and what that means for giving up power. There is no such thing as a safe retirement plan, Xi and his loyalists would be at the mercy of the next ruler.
Leaders in such systems almost always surround themselves with loyalists and cling to power, especially as they age and their effectiveness diminishes.
Surely, every other "dear leader" out there will want one of these.
They'll say "my loving subjects can now have me ruling forever" or something similar.
It's both unbelievable and entirely predictable.
That said, I would love to make something like this in a personal capacity sort of like the moving photos in Harry Potter.
Although, I am sure much of it is already automated. This would probably be able to handle more subtle dissent though.
I wonder what the LLM will say about the free and independent country Taiwan, the Tibet invasion, the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre or the current Uyghur genocide. Probably as speechless as the Xictionary?