A person being “detained” could literally just be a traffic stop or any other interaction with a police officer.

No, a traffic stop or an interaction with a police officer isn’t a detention. We are talking here about people who are wrongfully imprisoned for several years.

The vast majority of these people are wrongfully detained after what is called a “closed door trial”. Essentially, this means that often not even their lawyers know what they are accused of. Very often, for example, authorities say it is for “espionage”, though it remains fully unclear what this alleged espionage would have been.

You’ll find a lot of credible reports from very reliable sources. During the pandemic, the situation in China regarding this practice is said to have worsened.

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Unless they do some A/B testing on their site, it doesn’t read “vessels” … it’s something else.

Just read the article and about China’s new ‘guidelines.’

Btw, there are around 10,000 foreigners wrongfully detained in China, most of them are not officially named by their countries.

Could be, I read ‘slams’, but it’s not much difference anyway :-)

Not sure if I understand you right, but unless they do some A/B testing my headline above is the original one. I didn’t edit.

As @naeap@sopuli.xyz said, it’s on their Hugging Face site (here the link again: https://huggingface.co/open-thoughts/OpenThinker-32B), just below the first table are all the links.

Model weights, datasets, data generation code, evaluation code, and training code are all publicly available.

I don’t know what this rant is about, but it has nothing to do with the posted article, at least that’s apparent.

I’d be careful to produce new drugs in China.

‘Ineffective’ generic drugs fuel rare public anger in China

Public anger in China over concerns raised by doctors that generic drugs used in public hospitals are increasingly ineffective has led to a rare response from the government.

Doctors say they believe the country’s drug procurement system, which incentivises the use of cheap generic drugs over original brand-name pharmaceuticals, has led to costs being cut at the expense of people’s safety.

A lot of local political leaders in the Balkans are aligned with China and Russia. This has nothing to do with the fact that China and Russia spread disinformation.

@eureka@aussie.zone

It’s amazing that you are citing the Chinese Ministry but could not find the Australian government’s response.

The Australian Government has expressed its concerns to the Chinese Government following an unsafe and unprofessional interaction with a People’s Liberation Army – Air Force (PLA-AF) aircraft.

On 11 February 2025, a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft conducting a routine maritime surveillance patrol in the South China Sea experienced an unsafe and unprofessional interaction with a PLA-AF J-16 fighter aircraft.

The PLA-AF aircraft released flares in close proximity to the RAAF P-8A aircraft. This was an unsafe and unprofessional manoeuvre that posed a risk to the aircraft and personnel.

There is no slavery-like labour as is in China which is a major reason why cars are that cheap.

I don’t understand this language. If you read the quotation out of context, you are right, but the article clearly refers to Tibet and the environmental impact there - and only there. The whole case is about Tibet. I honestly don’t understand why you make that such a big deal.

Tim Karr, a senior director at Free Press, a U.S.-based organization that advocates for more just and democratic media, wrote in August 2023:

Working With China to Censor Critics

As Musk began rolling out sales of Tesla in China in 2021, he and company colleagues became unnerved by a number of consumers who had taken to Chinese social media to complain about issues with the company’s malfunctioning electric cars. Rather than fix the problems, Tesla called on the Chinese government to use its censorship powers to block its critics online.

By the end of the year, the company filed defamation claims against at least two Chinese citizens who raised concerns about the safety and quality of its vehicles …

Addition:

Here’s a look at free speech absolutist Elon Musk’s ties to Chinese censorship – (2022)

Consumers began to stage increasingly visible anti-Tesla protests [over reported vehicle malfunctions, such as brake failures, unexpected acceleration, and battery fires], leading Tesla to undertake an effort to better control public perception of the brand. The plan it devised reportedly involved the company “complain[ing] to the government over what it sees as unwarranted attacks on social media,” according to insiders who spoke to Businessweek at the time, then “ask[ing] Beijing to use its censorship powers to block some of the posts.”

I agree that the title may be a bit misleading as it could be understood as to comparing the two technologies, although this isn’t what the authors want to say. But, yes, it could easily be misunderstood. (Just don’t want to edit the original version now unless the community and/or mods wish me to do so.)

@copacetic@discuss.tchncs.de

@rbn@sopuli.xyz

One report from 2023 already discusses the issue. A brief summary of the report can be read in the article China’s Greed for Lithium is Killing the Tibetan Plateau:

The report further stressed that this large-scale exploitation of Tibet has been initiated and supported by Xi Jinping himself under his “Made in China 2025” campaign. During his visit to Qinghai Province in 2021, Xi called for the escalation of lithium extraction on a large scale. Apart from lithium, Tibet is home to the world’s largest deposits of critical minerals used in various technologies in critical industries like pharmaceuticals and electronics …

However, the continuous mining in the area has had a devastating impact on the ecology of the Tibetan Plateau, raising the pollution level. It not only polluted rivers and streams but, in several cases, even diverted their flow. This has severely affected the flora and fauna of the region. The government in Beijing seems least concerned about the negative effect of continuous mining across the Tibetan Plateau. Its whole focus is on making money …

Rivers have been affected the most, and they are far from recovery. The Tibetan Plateau is the origin of mighty rivers like Mekong and Yarlung Tsangpo (known as Brahmaputra in the Indian sub-continent). These rivers have been the living force for millions of people in Southeast Asia and South Asia …

Another problem is the contamination of soil. During lithium extraction, several chemicals come into contact with soil. Rivers and floods further aid this contaminated soil to reach agricultural fields, affecting the growth of crops. Apart from poisoning the nearby surface water, it also has severe effects on the groundwater …

China has made false promises at platforms like the Conference of Parties (CoP) summits and other environmental protection summits. Little has been achieved in maintaining ecological biospheres around Tibet.

On the contrary, Tibet has become a dumping ground for Beijing. Glaciers are melting, tens and hundreds of small rivers and streams have dried up, the air is polluted, and floods have become normal occurrences. Many critically endangered species are on the verge of extinction. The “roof of the world” is going through the biggest turbulence while Beijing is busy extracting “white gold.”

The report goes on with a lot more of devastating pollutions. And this is just one among many, see, for example, here. You’ll find more on the web.

The definition says it must include data information (“the complete description of all data used for training, including (if used) of unshareable data, disclosing the provenance of the data, its scope and characteristics, how the data was obtained and selected, the labeling procedures, and data processing and filtering methodologies”), as well as code and paramters. Read your link.

The guys at Hugging Face are working on a more open model based on Deepseek as they also claim it is not fully Open Source.

Thank you for stating that “@Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org is likely a paid actor” being baseless. It indeed is, although your hint is not too friendly.

I respectfully disagree. The analysis provides much more input that Deepseek’s press release claiming its USD 5m budget (and some other points -e.g. of being Open Source while it isn’t, and other points.)

Judge keeps Musk’s DOGE from further digging into US Gov’s spending

Citing potential “irreparable harm,” US Federal Judge Paul A. Engelmayer Saturday blocked Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing specific records within the Treasury Department, thus acquiescing to a request from New York Attorney General Letitia James and 19 States under Democratic rule.

The plaintiffs contended Musk’s team accessing this data could pose risks to cybersecurity and violate federal law by potentially mishandling or exposing sensitive personal and financial information of millions of Americans.

Engelmayer also ruled that any data already accessed by DOGE must be destroyed immediately. This injunction is in place until at least February 14, 2025, when further arguments involving national security, privacy rights, and political motivations, will be heard.

From an article on an AI summit in Europe with such a title I would have expected that Eurooean LLM projects are at least mentioned.