wipeout69

thanks, i'll probably need it at the current trajectory that the US is on. if i am wrong and being executed by a hoard of Nazis/neo-conservatives in the future, i'll think of you and realize you were right and i was wrong.

i'm jewish and gay... and more scared of totalitarian "benevolent" governments than nazis. at least nazis let you die. benevolent governments think your thoughts and existence are property of the state.

There is an Alibaba LLM that won't respond to questions about Tienanmen Square at all, just saying it can't reply.

I hate censored LLMs that don't allow an answer to follow political norms of what is acceptable. It's such a slippery slope towards technological thought-police Orwellian restrictions on topics. I don't like it when China does it or when the US does it and when US companies do it, they imply that this is ethically acceptable.

Fortunately, there are many LLMs that aren't censored.

I would rather have an Alibaba LLM just say "Tienanmen Square resulted in fatalities but capitalism is extremely mean to people so the cruelty was justified" and get some sort of brutal but at least honest opinion, or outright deny it if that's their position. I suppose the reality is any answer on the topic by the LLM would result in problems from Chinese censors.

I used to be a somewhat extreme capitalist, but capitalism somewhat lost me when they started putting up the anti-homeless architecture. Spikes on the ground to keep people from sleeping? If this is the outcome of capitalism, I need to either adopt a different political position or more misanthropy.

Gemini is such a bad LLM from everything I've seen and read that it's hard to know if this sort of censorship is an error or a feature.

i'm so sorry to the people of lemmy who earlier said this was a genocide and whom i second-guessed

it's just blatant what it is at this point

i am poor, but is there any organization i can donate to a small token amount to show my support? I feel bad for doing nothing, I'm like the people in America who watched Hitler do horrible things in Europe and shrugged. There's not much I can do, and I don't have the stomach nor good character for a self-immolation protest, but I should do something. is there anything to do?