Ferrous

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[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 17 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I do agree that this is very rare take from climate activists. Those folks usually know their shit and are pretty radical.

However, this line of reasoning is definitely a thing among laypersons. It has historical precedent that has its roots in Malthusian population theory.

[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

They'd respond sensitively. Is that supposed to be some sort of gotcha?

How do western AIs response to issues sensitive to the west compared to Chinese AIs?

Similarly, more sensitively. Which is what your own study posits. Your point about the whole of the Chinese open source strategy being a means to push propaganda came out of your analysis - not the study to which you linked.

[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (4 children)

It clearly reveals that Chinese 'Open Source' AI are just tools for Chinese Communist Party propaganda.

How do you figure? This is not the conclusion of this study. The study concludes with the fairly inoccuous point that a given country's AI systems will oftentimes mirror that country's values and government strategies. The word "propaganda" does not show up in the body of study a single time.

This study underscores a critical insight: AI chatbots are not neutral vessels of information. They are deeply embedded in political, cultural, and regulatory environments, and their outputs often reflect those influences. In China, for example, AI systems are explicitly tasked with reinforcing “core socialist values” and safeguarding state authority. This shapes not only what chatbots are permitted to say, but also how they transmit knowledge, define truth, and present information to align with state and societal ideologies.

For policymakers, the findings highlight the urgent need to integrate AI governance into broader debates around digital sovereignty, freedom of expression, and the integrity of public discourse. For developers, the research stresses the importance of transparency, context-aware design, and an awareness of how AI operates across jurisdictions and political systems. For users, understanding the potential for chatbot bias is now a key component of digital and AI literacy, recognizing that AI outputs are mediated, curated, and, at times, censored.

Before the conclusion, we see:

By contrast, Western chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude tend to reflect a wider range of perspectives, including international legal and human rights debates. This divergence illustrates how AI systems are deeply shaped by their geopolitical environments, reinforcing the notion that chatbot outputs are not neutral. Instead, they are embedded with ideological assumptions—raising broader implications for freedom of information, AI governance, and global epistemic plurality.

Anyone can run an experiment when the lead the question to AI. lmao at how chatgpt characterizes the Native American genocide versus DeepSeek.

[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Wise words. Thanks.

[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Ah yes, another NED-funded think tank with a focus on China and Vietnam. Definitely nothing sketchy there. Definitely not an arm of the regime change machine.

Also lmao at how they're using AI generated images of Chinese prisons, hail Nelson Mandela (who saw China and Mao's revolution as a spiritual pillar), and then pulls a statistical sleight of hand by claiming "China has the most prisoners". Blatant whataboutism. Not only is that statement false on it's face (the USA has the largest number of prisoners), but it is also fails to consider # of prisoners per capita.

[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Who do you expect to be the ones investigating? Who do you expect to be the ones doling out punishment?

[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Shout-out to Obama for giving us this guy.

[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Soo... Your answer for the Native American women being murdered is just to sit by and wait for a justice system that is emphatic about refusing to investigate these crimes? You're essentially telling these people to have complete faith in a system that has shown great interest in letting them die.

https://northernkentuckylawreview.com/blog/the-legal-loophole-affecting-native-nationsnbsp

There are approximately 326 federal Indian reservations located in the United States. [i] The violence on these reservations is estimated to be up to ten times higher than national averages. [ii] Specifically, the violence against women and children is astounding. A study completed by the National Institute of Justice found eighty-four percent of native women have experienced some type of violence within their lifetime, with fifty-six percent having suffered sexual violence. [iii] Nevertheless, the prosecution statistics for these crimes do not even begin to measure up.

Confusion in jurisdiction, lack of funds, and overall disinterest in the pursuit of the crimes and seeking justice for native victims produced an epidemic of violence on reservations. [viii] In Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta, the United States Supreme Court concluded that the federal government and the state in which a crime is committed have concurrent jurisdiction to prosecute crimes committed by non-Indians against Indians on Indian land. [ix] The state and federal departments tasked with prosecuting these crimes are funded by tax dollars, which Indians do not pay. [x]

A landmark case in this discussion is Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe, because the U.S. Supreme Court held that non-Indians, even if residents of a reservation, could not be prosecuted by tribal courts for criminal conduct. [xi] Essentially, tribal councils only maintain jurisdiction over Indians whom commit a crime on reservation land. [xii] This allows for non-Indians to commit crimes on reservations with little fear of repercussions. [xiii]

Non-Indians have exploited this legal loophole because they are aware of the unlikelihood of prosecution by the federal government. In 2011, only one year after the Tribal Law and Order Act was signed into law, the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University recovered data that revealed federal prosecutors declined to file charges in fifty-two percent of cases involving serious crimes on Native American reservations. [xiv]

[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because you're not engaging faithfully.

[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Why does it matter? You're not trying to slyly pin these murders on Native Americans and Indigenous people, are you? Just make your point and don't be chickenshit.

[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (10 children)

https://www.humanrightsresearch.org/post/the-disappearance-of-native-american-women-in-the-u-s

Despite Native Americans constituting a small percentage of the U.S. population, rates of murder, rape, and violent crime committed against Native Americans are all higher than the national averages. In 2022, the National Crime Information Center reported 5,487 cases of missing Native American women and girls in the United States, where the majority of missing persons cases involved girls aged 0-17 years old

[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Some 5500 Native American and Indigenous women go missing every year. The perpetrators, the subjugation, and the brutality absolutely persist today.

 

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  1. I pause all torrents in qbittorrent webui
  2. I stop both the qbit and gluetun containers
  3. I start the gluetun container
  4. I give the gluetun container adequate time to connect (since the qbit container depends on the gluetun network, attempting to start both at the same time yields an error on the qbit side)
  5. I start the qbit container
  6. I resume all torrents in the qbittorrent webui

Is there any easy way to automate this process? Preferably one that doesn't require me to learn ansible? I'm hoping the solution could all be done via portainer - which I use.

Thank you in advance.

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