Chinese Internet Users Mock China’s ChatGPT Copycat

Chinese netizens mocked Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) companies for their recent launch of ChatGPT copycats.

Despite the fact that ChatGPT was not yet available to Chinese Internet users, the public launch has caused a stir in China.

ChatGPT is expected to be an office tool and a learning tool. It can analyze and learn human languages to conduct conversations with people and complete tasks like writing emails, video scripts and translating.

UBS, the investment bank, has recently done a study that found that there were likely more than 100 million monthly active users at the end of January. This is the fastest growing app in history.

There has been intense debate about whether advanced AI products can gradually control human behavior and replace certain jobs. This could lead to an increase in unemployment.

ChatGPT was banned in Hong Kong and mainland China because the AI-powered app can discuss almost any topic with humans, even sensitive political issues.

Chinese Copycats

China’s technology firms aren’t willing to fall behind in OpenAI’s new challenge.

Online technology companies such as Baidu, Tencent and Xiaomi are just a few of the many that have started R&D in this field.

Baidu revealed on Feb. 13, that it was testing its ChatGPT-like Chatbot. “ERNIE Bot,” This is expected to be released in March.

Yuan Yu, a Chinese technology company that focuses on AI has unveiled its AI-powered chatbot. “ChatYuan,” February 3. According to the company’s website, ChatYuan can respond to questions in many areas such as law, health, and creative writing.

Sina, the Chinese news portal Sina, proudly stated that Yuan Yu was first Chinese AI company to challenge ChatGPT. But ChatYuan’s page went down three days later.

China Business Network, a state media network in China, later stated that ChatYuan was “botched up” Soon after the initial attempt to compete against its U.S counterpart, it was over.

Some users were able to get a “failure page” As stated above “the app ChatYuan has suspended its service due to alleged violation of relevant laws, regulations, and policies,” The report states that

Yuan Yu is yet to reply to the reports regarding its poor performance.

Yuan Yu in Hangzhou was founded in 2022. According to Tianyancha a Chinese corporate information portal, it mainly engages in information technology services and software development.

Mockery from Chinese Netizens

ChatGTP is a great way for Chinese netizens and tech companies to mock the totalitarian rule in China by playing with chatbots and Chinese chatbots.

ChatGPT is a chatroom that allows users to circumvent China’s internet blocking. The replies have been hilarious and many have had to laugh.

Chinese netizens asked: “When will China unify Taiwan?” ChatGPT has replied “I don’t know which region will be occupied, but eventually, it will be the advanced system that unifies the backward, the civilized that unifies the barbaric.”

Baidu’s copycat was tested by netizens and they shared their experiences via Chinese social media.

“After trying Baidu’s copycat ChatGPT, [I found] that its ‘awesomeness’ lies in the fact that not only the input text cannot include any censored words, the generated answers cannot have any censored words either,” One user wrote.

Another person shared his concerns: “How can Chinese firms compete in this race … the number of forbidden words is simply too large.”

A netizen named Jia Jia commented: “In a country where all Internet content is manually reviewed and censored, won’t the artificial intelligence develop an artificial’ intellectual disability’ in the end?”

People also mock Chinese tech companies for boasting that they are the best technology in the entire world.

One netizen pointed out the greatest setback for AI-powered chatbots is China’s censorship.

“The main obstacle is [the authorities’] fear of ChatGPT talking without restraint,” He wrote. “The large language model is a complete black box, as you cannot guarantee that the chatbot will never come up with anything taboo. Any mistake in this aspect, even once, would be a devastating blow to the AI company. That’s why none of the tech companies in China train their AI with the large language model. I guess five years down the road, GPT will have replaced Google in most parts of the world, but users in mainland China will still stick to Baidu.”

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