Janel Comeaudaily Chinese news headline: Scientists grow the world’s first functional human spine replacement from a single drop of blood
daily American news headline: White House declares that sunburns are caused by bees
Distante@VeryBadLlama I am not defending Trump (who is an enemy of democracy), but what would the headlines in China have been if the CCP did not have strict censorship? Let's be realistic, authoritarian China is not paradise
Andreas K@Distante @VeryBadLlama By God not. But compared to the Totalitarian system that is encroaching the USA, the CCP seems suddenly a sane, long-term stable partner. Perhaps in 20 years when the Fascists have taken complete control, and Fuhrer Trump has been sent to his well-earned retirement in a grave (this guy will never retire before he's not safely dead), the USA will become again a predicatable partner. Currently, it's more like, you open the news during lunch break, and wonder what stupidity
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK@yacc143 @Distante @VeryBadLlama
The Chinese are at least open and honest about their authoritarianism, they don't go around claiming to be "land of the free".
Things like entire high speed trains and big factories can't be easily faked, you can look at the websites of the companies that make them or go on Google Earth and see them with your own eyes..
Whilst Western nations don't have overt censorship, their media still underreport "bad news" if advertisers moan about it and even in Europe a lot is hidden if you confine yourself to only reading in English (for instance I wouldn't be that aware of the relatively high level of fatal road traffic collisions in Germany and the constant wrangling about implementing a speed limit on motorways if I didn't read German)
@vfrmedia @Distante @VeryBadLlama Well, hint: use AI as it's meant to be used.
Don't use bad AI (anything even smelling of closed systems like ChatGPT can go to a hot place), insist on reference for anything it claims etc. Basically, safe and sane “research assistant AI usage”.
And then, kick the AI buddy where it hurts, make it read the local language news. LLM are naturally polyglot and capable of rather subtle translations.
Yeah, I'm a #perplexity user, and it takes some consistent prompt reeducation to make its US centric world view go away (it has this ironic idea that local EU politics are best reported via politico.eu LOL, at least by default).
But after some exercises, it now knows that I like my news with a local touch.