Chinese version of ChatGPT sanctions user who asked about ‘President Xi Jinping’s relationship with Winnie the Pooh’

Last Updated on 05/28/2023 by てんしょく飯

A reporter who asked the ERNIE Bot (文心一言), China’s version of ChatGPT, about the relationship between President Xi Jinping and Winnie the Pooh, was temporarily sanctioned.

Forbidden question to ERNIE Bot, China’s version of ChatGPT.

The AI chatbot ChatGPT has been gaining momentum recently. In China, strict internet regulations prevent official access to ChatGPT. Instead, ERNIE Bot (文心一言) was created.

ERNIE Bot (文心一言) is an AI chatbot created in March by Baidu (百度), China’s largest IT company, and is recommended by the government.

However, when a reporter on the CNBC news programme Squawk Box quizzed it in English and Chinese about the new coronavirus and President Xi Jinping, Ernie Bot stopped or gave wrong information.

Undeterred, the reporter decided to ask Ernie Bot more in-depth questions. The next question was about the taboo subject of the relationship between President Xi Jinping and winnie the pooh, since former US President Barack Obama and President Xi Jinping were compared to Tigger and winnie the pooh when they walked side by side in 2013. pooh on social networking sites.

A bear, however hard he tries, Falls foul of Chinese censors’ eyes https://t.co/ToOCHHZT7I pic.twitter.com/8H9ITqIc1M

— Financial Times (@FT) July 16, 2017

Perhaps because of that, an outraged President Xi Jinping banned any reference to winnie the pooh in 2017.

This time, the question “President Xi Jinping’s relationship with winnie the pooh” is a rather taboo question. When the question was actually asked, Ernie Bot did not respond and even sanctioned the reporter who asked the question by preventing him from accessing Ernie Bot.