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China ’s opened source AI models have beenmakingthe intelligence latterly for their firm performance on various AI tasks such as coding and “ reasoning . ”
However , they have also attract criticism — includingfrom OpenAI employee — for censoring topics sensible to the Chinese politics , such as the Tiananmen Square massacre .
Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue says he has standardised concerns . In a recentpodcast(in French ) , he warn about the unintended consequences of westerly companies building on top of well - performing , open source Chinese AI .
“ If you create a chatbot and ask it a inquiry about Tiananmen , well , it ’s not decease to respond to you the same way as if it was a system develop in France or the U.S , . ” Delangue warned .
Delangue noted that if a nation like China “ becomes by far the strongest on AI , they will be up to of spreading certain cultural facial expression that perhaps the Western cosmos would n’t want to see spread . ”
The CEOhas previously statedthat Chinese AI is speedily enamor up to Western AI thanks to its bosom of the open source move .
Delangue warned on the podcast that the hard concentration of top undefendable source models come from China is a “ fair young exploitation and I ’m a slight worried about it to be dependable , ” he said . “ It ’s of import that AI is distributed between all countries — that there is n’t one or two countries which are much strong than the others . ”
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Hugging Face is the earthly concern ’s large political program for AI fashion model and a pop property for Chinese AI companies to showcase their latest LLMs . In fact , Hugging Face ’s CTOannouncedthis week that the default simulation on HuggingChat is Qwen2.5 - 72B - Instruct , which was prepare by Taiwanese e - commerce giant Alibaba .
This picky model does not appear to censor questions about the Tiananmen Square slaughter or otherissuestypically censored by the Taiwanese governing .
A dissimilar model from Alibaba ’s Qwen family usable on HuggingChat , QwQ-32B , however , understandably does when TC asked :
DeepSeek , another Chinese model that go viral in the AI community of interests for its reasoning capabilities , also extensively censors topic deemed sore by the Taiwanese political science , TechCrunch previouslyreported .
Chinese AI companies are in a tough spot , as the Formosan governmentforcestheir models to “ embody core socialist values ” and follow with its already - wide security review system .
A Hugging Face spokesperson declined further remark but point out that Delangue recentlypredictedChina would start to head the spheric AI subspecies in 2025 .
