{"id":645908,"date":"2024-12-04T02:40:39","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T23:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/hugging-face-ceo-has-concerns-about-chinese-open-source-ai-models\/"},"modified":"2024-12-04T02:40:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T23:40:39","slug":"hugging-face-ceo-has-concerns-about-chinese-open-source-ai-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hugging-face-ceo-has-concerns-about-chinese-open-source-ai-models\/","title":{"rendered":"#Hugging Face CEO has concerns about Chinese open source AI models"},"content":{"rendered":"
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China\u2019s open source AI models have been making the news<\/a> lately for their strong performance on various AI tasks such as coding and \u201creasoning.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, they have also attracted criticism \u2014 including<\/a> from OpenAI employees \u2014 for censoring topics sensitive to the Chinese government, such as the Tiananmen Square massacre.<\/p>\n

Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue says he has similar concerns. In a recent podcast<\/a> (in French), he warned about the unintended consequences of Western companies building on top of well-performing, open source Chinese AI.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you create a chatbot and ask it a question about Tiananmen, well, it\u2019s not going to respond to you the same way as if it was a system developed in France or the U.S,.\u201d Delangue warned.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Delangue noted that if a country like China \u201cbecomes by far the strongest on AI, they will be capable of spreading certain cultural aspects that perhaps the Western world wouldn\u2019t want to see spread.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The CEO has previously stated<\/a> that Chinese AI is quickly catching up to Western AI thanks to its embrace of the open source movement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Delangue warned on the podcast that the strong concentration of top open source models coming from China is a \u201cfairly new development and I\u2019m a little worried about it to be honest,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s important that AI is distributed between all countries \u2014 that there isn\u2019t one or two countries which are much stronger than the others.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hugging Face is the world\u2019s biggest platform for AI models and a popular place for Chinese AI companies to showcase their latest LLMs. In fact, Hugging Face\u2019s CTO announced<\/a> this week that the default model on HuggingChat is Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct, which was developed by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This particular model does not app<\/a>ear to censor questions about the Tiananmen Square massacre or other issues<\/a> typically censored by the Chinese government.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A different model from Alibaba\u2019s Qwen family available on HuggingChat, QwQ-32B, however, clearly does when TC asked:<\/p>\n

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Alibaba\u2019s QwQ-32B model won\u2019t answer a question about the Tiananmen Square protests. Image Credits: Hugging Face (screenshot)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

DeepSeek, another Chinese model that went viral in the AI community for its reasoning capabilities, also extensively censors topics deemed sensitive by the Chinese government, TechCrunch previously reported.<\/p>\n

Chinese AI companies are in a tough spot, as the Chinese government forces<\/a> their models to \u201cembody core social<\/a>ist values\u201d and comply with its already-extensive censorship system.<\/p>\n

A Hugging Face spokesperson declined further comment but pointed out that Delangue recently predicted<\/a> China would start to lead the global AI race in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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