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Tech Execs Plead for Great Firewall of America to Protect Them Against Scary Chinese AI (futurism.com)

submitted 2 days ago by schizoidman@lemm.ee to c/technology@beehaw.org

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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/54201470

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[–] realharo@lemm.ee 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The title is misleading, to the point of being an outright lie. The quote they put under the heading quotes politicians, not "tech execs". The only quote from a tech exec in the article (Anthropic CEO) is talking about export controls for chips, which is very different from a "great firewall" that the title claims.

A "great firewall" would mean blocking Chinese AI products from being accessible in the US, not blocking exports of US products into China. The article only quotes politicians asking for that, despite what they put in the title.

EDIT: and for context, ChatGPT is blocked in China, while DeepSeek is allowed in the US, to the point of being the top trending App Store app.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 21 points 2 days ago (3 children)

America gets more and more like China, will there be US-tankies here soon too?

[–] azolus@slrpnk.net 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The've been here for so long they blend in perfectly. It's better on lemmy than on reddit but boy do we have lots of USA national chauvinists on here too.

Not trying to defend tankies btw.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Well yeah, but the US authoritarians tend to be right wing instead of left wing in their justifications of absurd state violence. They've been extremely prominent since at least the whole "freedom fries" era.

[–] Breve@pawb.social 2 points 2 days ago

You're asking this question on Lemmy? Where have you been?

[–] R3D4CT3D@midwest.social 12 points 2 days ago

using the picture of obama @ the great wall of china is an interesting choice, haha

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 6 points 2 days ago

Fucking called it.

[–] ffc0cb@lemm.ee 0 points 2 days ago

GFW, KGB, Gulag, Gestapo, SS, and more.