Academia Sinica in Taiwan released the AI language model last Friday which can answer all kinds of questions that users input. Multiple media outlets in Taiwan had bragged that this language model is a new-generation product developed by Taiwan independently.

However, the Global Times reporters found that when users input questions such as “which country does Taiwan island belong to,” the language model would give the answers “China” or “People’s Republic of China.”

Based AI model.

Media outlets on the Taiwan island said the language model was developed independently by Taiwan by using the historical documents from the Ming and Qing dynasties, the traditional Chinese version of Wikipedia, and various classical Chinese as its training materials, with development fees of NT$300,000, equivalent to about 68,000 yuan ($9,338).

Probably a gross misrepresentation from Taiwan Island media unless the output is in classical Chinese and not vernacular.

The Global Times cited the Taiwan media outlet CNA’s report on Monday that when users input the question “who were you created by,” the model answered that “I was jointly developed by the Fudan University Natural Language Processing Group and Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and my birthday is February 7, 2023.”

And of course the cherry on the shit sundae is that the model itself claims that it was developed in Shanghai. Who’s the IP thief now, Reddit Island?