If they are so lazy that they just spam out u edited ChatGPT output, how many of their “findings” were just made up over the years before that?

This is the actual story here. I mean these research centers didn’t spawn into existence with the rise of AI. They’ve been publishing works for years, often decades, often with the goal to spread propaganda. Anything that either makes the CCP look good or any other nation look bad is fair game. Let’s just remember the batshit insane propaganda they kept releasing during the pandemic, mostly inside China. At some points they claimed the virus came from Italy, the US, Australia, Sweden or pretty much any country that spoke out against China at the time. They dragged ‘scientists’ in front of cameras to claim how the pandemic was imported via packages from Canada at one point. Meanwhile doctors in Wuhan who tried to warn the world in late 2019 got silenced and vanished.

Long story short, to no one’s surprise ChatGPT in research publications is just a symptom of something much worse. Papers from certain places were never trustworthy and the use of LLMs just shows how bad it has been all along.

And I am sure the south korean public will have a calm and thoughtful discussion about it.

That‘s just normal behavior for people of split countries. It‘s not so normal when a foreigner doesn‘t specify clearly which of the two they’re referring to when speaking to a global audience.

And the part about it not even being considered a different country is of course nonsense. Some folks may be wishful thinking out loud, but the general public does not believe they are currently the same country. Some may think of them as the same people, but the countries couldn‘t be more different and divided.

You would think a best selling author could express himself more clearly. But then again he‘s American. Perhaps he really doesn‘t know or care which one or if there is a difference.

Both can be true at the same time. Caffeine can help with migraines but the main reason it‘s in the meds is to speed up the effect of other substances. At the same time regular consumption of caffeine (coffee, energy drinks etc.) can lead to withdrawal symptoms and give you bad headaches more often. But we‘re all built a little different and some people have much milder caffeine withdrawals than others.

Anyone acting even remotely drastic gets quickly thrown into prison in a growing number of world‘s free democracies. We‘re in big trouble.

That’s a fair point. Here in Germany the government has infamously reframed the term as well about two decades ago and we’re all worse off because of it. It’s for that reason (among others) that I think the situation in China is very dire and not easened retroactively because ‘the numbers before were wrong’. Because that’s exactly what the chinese government is trying to sell here.

The CCP solves joblessness the same way they solve most problems: By dropping all ambitions to a minimum, pushing numbers and sugarcoating it with lies when these ridiculously low targets are still not met. This is pretty much the same approach they totally abolished poverty before or kept the pandemic under control. They‘re basically just telling their citizens to shut up about it or face consequences for going against the state narrative.

Not much of a race when the US does all the important development and research while China just throws it at stupid applications, promising it will magically solve all their core problems at once. Unless their service robots learn to birth children, I don‘t have much hope for their stability here.

Expecting a lot of these kinds of headlines to follow the next couple of months.

This is the real question we have to ask ourselves. We really need to move away from looking at the internet as just a resource to extract money from, and instead see it through a social lense again. Look what late stage capitalism has done to our digital, social gathering places. Almost everything has become a product that needs to be profitable, to compete for attention and to extract as much data from users as possible and discourse has suffered greatly from it. I mean billions are donated to content creators simply because people want to contribute. Why stop there? We can shape the internet the way we want if we simply contribute and put our heads together. We don’t have to make a profit. That’s our strength.