Russia’s federal censorship agency, Roskomnadzor, has announced plans to create a database of the geolocations of Russian users’ IP addresses, according to a draft order published on a government website. According to the draft order, internet providers will be required to hand over data on network addresses used by their clients, including location data. A …
What this framing misses, however, is that censorship constrains only one application of LLMs: public-facing chatbots. In reality, the myriad applications of the technology that would provide the bulk of the economic and military gains from AI are not subject to the so-called political alignment problem. An example is Huawei’s Pangu Mine Model – a …
Weibo, China’s leading microblogging platform, is urging its users to refrain from badmouthing the economy, account holders have said. The apparently automated notices, first reported by Bloomberg on December 15, arrived in the inboxes of netizens who commented about the state of the Chinese economy, which has been in flux since the country embarked on …
While there are some tools on the market that work in a similar way to Altitude, they are prohibitively expensive for a lot of smaller companies. Experts like Green believe that tools like this need to be open source and free of charge. The new tool can be integrated straight into the backend of whatever …