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TikTok owner ByteDance powered an e-reader’s unhinged AI assistant
The AI embedded in a popular e-reader was spouting Chinese propaganda.
For example, the AI assistant denied China ever having any “so-called massacres” in answer to a question about why it refused to discuss the Tiananmen Square crackdown, a screenshot shows. When TechCrunch used ByteDance’s Doubao service and asked it similar questions, its answers closely matched the kind of responses given by Boox’s assistant in the Reddit post. “If you create a chatbot and ask it a question about Tiananmen, well, it’s not going to respond to you the same way as if it was a system developed in France or the US,” Clement Delangue, the CEO of HuggingFace, warned on a French podcast in September 2024, TechCrunch previously reported.
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