It’s a bit unfair. I think a proper comparison would be whether the geoGPT gives answers for other companies/countries screw up. This makes it sound like a conspiracy when it could be just poor bot.
It's an odd example, to be sure, part of the reason I pulled that from the Guardian article.
It's really pitting two general knowledge AI DB's against each other on mining knowledge, it's unclear whether this is a smoking gun on censorship or incomplete data entry.
The Deep-time Digital Earth (DDE) GeoGPT uses Alibaba’s Qwen LLM. It is no conspiracy, the fact is that Chinese AI has to abide by Chinese Censorship Law’s.
It does give answers on other companies and countries.
Check out Leonard
Lin’s excellent independent technical evaluation of Qwen’s Chinese government censorship.
As Lin points out, Qwen is Chinese Government censored so why bother using it in a global context when there are equally as good models (if not better) that are not aligned - so won’t issue Chinese government propaganda or refuse to answer.
It seems odd that the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) which is non-political and non-governmental, has allowed DDE to build such a system for the world’s community of geologists with such Chinese government bias and censorship. Maybe they did not realise what was being developed using their name.
