I never believed that myth either, but it’s been around here on Lemmy these days :-)

Yeah, the European Union is also good. For the first time in 2024, solar energy in the EU surpassed coal in generating electricity across all 27 EU member states, while natural gas production of electricity fell for the fifth year running.

In the European Union (EU), 47% of electricity now comes from renewable sources like wind and solar, a new record according to a report from the think tank Ember. This is a far higher percentage than in other countries, including the United States and China, where about two-thirds of energy comes from fossil fuels such as oil, coal, and gas.

As I said, tthe narrative that China as leading the path to a better climate is simply wrong. China’s track record regarding the fight against climate change is -very much as those of most other larger countries- an absolute disaster: https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/china

Etwas wird nicht dadurch besser, weil es vorher schon mal wer gemacht hat.

That’s an oversimplification of the article. It’s not that “we should burn fossil fuels.” China should rather stop burning them.

China’s measures to fight climate change are highly insufficient as per practically all independent metrics, and the Chinese government doesn’t appear to be even willing to reduce its emissions. It keeps on to produce a massive amount of overcapacity to to flood the world (and especially the global south) with cheap products for geopolitical and economic gains.

See my comment above regarding the state actors. The Chinese government apparently tries to influence the narratives on Tiktok.

I would also like to make some criticism of the so-called ‘manufactured consent’. Chomsky and Herman made some points on corporate media, but their conclusion is wrong. People do not consent on news just because they can’t influence the content. You can ‘manufacture the news’ -as is done by corporate media in the U.S. and ‘the West’ as well as in China by the Communist Party- but that does not mean people consent.

China, in particular, has developed sophisticated strategies to control narratives and influence public opinion through digital platforms. This phenomenon, often referred to as “networked authoritarianism,” involves state actors using subtle tactics like algorithmic manipulation and strategic content curation to shape narratives on popular social media platforms.

In addition to my comments, we can add that Wiz Research uncovered exposed DeepSeek database leaking sensitive information, including chat history.

TLDR: DeepSeek had left over a million lines of sensitive data exposed on the open internet, including digital software keys.

Deepseek ist nicht Open Source, aber die Entwickler von Hugging Face arbeiten an einer offenen Version:

Hugging Face developers are in the process of building a fully open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1

In related news:

Researchers say they had a ‘100% attack success rate’ on jailbreak attempts against Chinese AI DeepSeek

Using algorithmic jailbreaking techniques, our team applied an automated attack methodology on DeepSeek R1 which tested it against 50 random prompts from the HarmBench dataset. These covered six categories of harmful behaviors including cybercrime, misinformation, illegal activities, and general harm.

The results were alarming: DeepSeek R1 exhibited a 100% attack success rate, meaning it failed to block a single harmful prompt. This contrasts starkly with other leading models, which demonstrated at least partial resistance.

CNBC reports that DeepSeek’s privacy policy “isn’t worth the paper it is written on.”

Seems to be a long way to go, but Hugging Face developers are in the process of building a fully open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1 as the AI is not Open Source as it claims.

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Yes, it’s unblocked for a few weeks after a long investigation. The talian authorities fined OpenAI EUR 15m for GDPR violations. You can find a very detailed analysis about the issues here.