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Fan Yang

China’s chatbots will have to toe the Party line

April 3, 2023March 29, 2023 by Fan Yang

Baidu’s ERNIE Bot will not be a substitute for ChatGPT – but that might be how the Chinese state wants it

Categories Big Tech Tags Baidu, Censorship, ChatGPT, Communist Party of China, News, Surveillance State, Tencent, The Conversation, The Long Read Leave a comment

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