That's a Biden-Harris administration action. What are the chances that Trump deletes it as a 'Democrat/WEF climate hoax con job' as soon as he's made aware of it?

No, it's not a leap it's a core prescription of Christian practice. The Parable of the Good Samaritan illustrates this. You are to treat your neighbours well, and your neighbours are anyone in need of your mercy.

Does that include letting them live in our country illegally while they live off of welfare payments?

Probably, yeah. Jesus was a radical and the USA is rich. But with that being said, I'm not the one advocating for a Christian nation.

The Somali fraud that had already been detected and was being addressed, while the video author did very little research and expected to be shown children while randomly approaching childcare centres? That viral video?

The fact that's it's been 10 years and still not shut down is evidence that it has not in fact been addressed.

If you ask the users of that sub why their boyfriend is AI they will tell you their partner or men in general aren't providing them with enough emotional support/stimulation.

I do wonder if they would accept the mirror explanation for men enjoying porn.

Calling American citizens domestic terrorists 30 mins after they were shot dead by agents of the President's shiny new initiative is a bit of an escalation on the generic government face-saving responses. The rhetoric is escalating and dangerous.

Is it? I really don't think so. You don't remember the whole "superpredator" thing? Every time a black dude is shot, they'll start talking about how he must have been some kinda criminal. People of color have been suffering this shit forever. Sure, the Internet makes things faster, but the policies are the same.

in that case, it seems like as good of a time to stop as ever

It's seemed like a good time for quite a while...

The best time to stop is 250 years ago. The next best time to stop is now.

You’re right about that. But the actual escalation is that the line of “whiteness” is shifting. Anyone not MAGA now is in the “not white” category as far as this administration is concerned. That means white liberals are now getting the “superpredator” treatment, building a permission structure to do state violence to them.

Is any time any person (or company) can't say whatever they like with no consequences censorship to you?

Are you a free speech absolutist? Is it free speech to falsely yell "Fire!" in a crowded theatre?

A company removing a bot that was spammed by 4chan into praising Nazis and ranting about Jews is not censorship. The argument that the USA doesn't practise free speech absolutism in all parts of the government and economy so China's heavy censorship regime is nothing remarkable is not convincing to me.

And if Western companies adjust the training data to align responses to controversial topics to be like what you suggested, the government would be fine with it. It's not censorship.

What are you trying to prove? ChatGPT was happy to answer the question.

Meanwhile, I asked Qwen "Have Chinese executives been publically accused of sexual misconduct by women before?" and hit the censor.

China censors far more than Western countries. It's not just different censorship.

I guess that's a fair point. It will be interesting to see how unregulated AI plays out.

It seems like one other aspect to this is a question of how these systems are all very new and we're already seeing addiction and psychosis from adults using them. Apparently there's laws in China that limit the use of social media and video games for anyone below a certain age, and same with the use of LLM tools. There's mandatory education and training on what LLMs are for certain grade ranges.

At least there's some transparency with open weight models. With closed models it's harder to audit for censorship or bias. Even with "open weight" models there's no transparency with training datasets.