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The academic paper from the PLA Information Engineering University detailed how researchers had given Ernie Bot prompts to generate simulated military response plans for Libyan troops in response to a U.S. military attack.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)On matters of politics, by contrast, the chatbot is rather quiet. Ernie is confused by questions such as "Who is China's president?" and will tell you the name of Xi Jinping's mother, but not those of his siblings. It draws a blank if asked about the drawbacks of socialism. It often attempts to redirect sensitive conversations by saying: "Let's talk about something else." Ernie's reticence will come as no shock to Chinese users familiar with a heavily censored internet.
ERNIE, developed by Chinese internet company Baidu. But ERNIE has to follow Chinese censorship rules and political mores, including, for example, saying in answers that Taiwan is part of China - because only training a model on data from China could make a pro-China LLM.
When Baidu introduced its chatbot, Ernie, in March, the "live" demonstration was revealed to be prerecorded. Baidu's stock plummeted 10 percent that day.
The app is highly censored, offering state-approved answers to taboo questions and sometimes refusing to process them altogether when AFP tested the service.
On matters of politics, by contrast, the chatbot is rather quiet. Ernie is confused by questions such as "Who is China's president?" and will tell you the name of Xi Jinping's mother, but not those of his siblings. It draws a blank if asked about the drawbacks of socialism. It often attempts to redirect sensitive conversations by saying: "Let's talk about something else." Ernie's reticence will come as no shock to Chinese users familiar with a heavily censored internet.
When Baidu introduced its chatbot, Ernie, in March, the "live" demonstration was revealed to be prerecorded. Baidu's stock plummeted 10 percent that day.
The academic paper from the PLA Information Engineering University detailed how researchers had given Ernie Bot prompts to generate simulated military response plans for Libyan troops in response to a U.S. military attack.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)The app is highly censored, offering state-approved answers to taboo questions and sometimes refusing to process them altogether when AFP tested the service.
On matters of politics, by contrast, the chatbot is rather quiet. Ernie is confused by questions such as "Who is China's president?" and will tell you the name of Xi Jinping's mother, but not those of his siblings. It draws a blank if asked about the drawbacks of socialism. It often attempts to redirect sensitive conversations by saying: "Let's talk about something else." Ernie's reticence will come as no shock to Chinese users familiar with a heavily censored internet.
When Baidu introduced its chatbot, Ernie, in March, the "live" demonstration was revealed to be prerecorded. Baidu's stock plummeted 10 percent that day.