Can China keep generative AI under its control? Well, it contained the internet | John Naughton

When the Chinese embraced capitalism, the west predicted it would crumble. Then that the web would break it. We may be proved wrong again

It is often said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Something similar applies to western thinking about the People’s Republic of China. When that country’s rulers embarked on their astonishing programme of industrialisation, we said that if they wanted capitalism (and they clearly did) then they would have …

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