China's top internet regulator has developed a grand language model based on President Xi Jinping's political philosophy.
The model, reminiscent of Mao Zedong's Little Red Book, is said to be “secure and reliable” and “the professionalism and authority of the corpus guarantee the professional quality of the content generated.”
This corpus is taken from the president's personal comments and instructions on social, economic and political life known as 'Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era'.
A direct line to Xi Jinping's thought
The LLM has been developed by the China Cyberspace Research Institute as a closed model trained on selected approved materials to provide information to those seeking Xi Jinping's personal view on their problems, or to explain reports and answer questions.
Dubbed China's Great Firewall, the state restricts internet access, leading to a rise in VPNs in China and AI that fails to comply with strict guidelines and government controls to ensure responses are ideologically aligned with Beijing.
While not currently available for public testing, the announcement suggested that users could consult the LLM for “a report on the current state of artificial intelligence development” or “to learn the difference between new productivity and traditional productivity.” .
China is struggling to harness the power of AI to boost its economy, which has been rocked by a series of economic problems. LLM training requires advanced processors, which the United States recently banned companies from selling to China. Unfortunately, recent investigations have found that chips are still going through China's Great Chip Embargo.
According to the Cyberspace Administration of China, the LLM was “exclusively deployed on the servers of the China Cyberspace Research Institute, where all data is processed locally, ensuring a high level of security.”
Some LLMs are prone to spouting hallucinations or misinformation, so it is understandable that Beijing wants answers based on the personal philosophy of China's supreme leader to be accurate to current state teachings.
Through SCMP.
