Some topics are off limits in Chinese AI, researchers find

An AI model downloaded over 3 billion times and used by U.S. firms like Airbnb and Uber is embedded with China-friendly narratives and programmed for censorship, new research shows.
Qwen, a freely available model made by Chinese conglomerate Alibaba, doesn't acknowledge the violent suppression of protests in Hong Kong in 2019 or Tiananmen Square in 1989; it calls the Chinese government-maligned religion Falun Gong a "dangerous cult," and curiously won't talk about Winnie the Pooh, it's thought because dissidents have compared the fictional bear to Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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