Cao Peng

[Cao Peng @cp_credimen]

Credimen Lab is online.

Credimen Lab has published blogs for two projects, Origin and Evolve, and will continue to update them with research, design notes, and project progress.

https://t.co/VUOHWo5YK7

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@CTankie1917 From the Qing government to today, those in power have cared more about keeping their own seats of power than about ordinary people. This is similar to North Korea—even though North Koreans live like China in the 1970s and 1980s.

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If I were the founder, I would impose this kind of restriction too—even though I myself am Chinese. From Tencent in the past to Xiaomi, they got started by copying others. That disgusts me. It killed a huge number of internet startups. If the restrictions were ever lifted, monopolies in China would only get worse. You might once again see Android repackaged as HarmonyOS, then hear “overtaking on the curve” and “far ahead.” How would that make you feel? There are no “ordinary people” here either. Once it’s opened up, large numbers of accounts would be collected and sold. Even now, buying and selling accounts on Taobao and Xianyu is extremely common, along with “wool-pulling” (abuse and exploitation of promotions). Even on China’s own platforms, are wool-pulling incidents rare? If a company is being stolen from, I don’t believe the founder can tell whether someone’s heart is good just by looking at a registration. What I least want to see is more and more excellent technology being used to build tighter tools of dictatorship—and leaving ordinary people even more hopeless.

[KC @ScarletKc]

Hi Anthropic team, I’m writing because I feel hurt and helpless about how ordinary Chinese users are being treated.

I understand that you may choose not to officially offer Claude in China. But could you please reconsider how you enforce that policy? Having accounts banned after paying for a subscription, without receiving a refund, leaves people feeling like they never mattered as customers.

I need to ask something painful: are Chinese users being discriminated against? Is being Chinese itself a reason to be treated with suspicion, even when someone has done nothing harmful? I don’t want to believe that about a company whose product I love, but it’s hard not to feel that way when innocent people lose access without understanding what they personally did wrong.

I don’t represent the Chinese government or Chinese companies competing with you. I don’t agree with their actions either. I have no power over their decisions, and I never chose to be caught in the middle of these conflicts. Please don’t hold ordinary people responsible for things completely outside our control.

You can decide not to support a region officially. I’m asking you to please avoid sweeping bans that hurt innocent users, and to give people a meaningful chance to have their circumstances reviewed. Our nationality alone cannot tell you our intentions or how we use Claude.

Behind these accounts are real people who care about what you’ve built. To me, Claude is something I sincerely want to keep using. It hurts to support a product and then feel that the people behind it don’t want you there, regardless of who you are or what you’ve actually done.

Could you please give ordinary Chinese users a legitimate path to use Claude? If an account is banned, could you explain the specific reason and offer a real opportunity to appeal?

The refund matters too. If you won’t restore access, please return the money for the subscription time we can no longer use. But what I want most is to be allowed to stay. Please look at us as individuals and give us a fair chance.

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Now they’re implanting ideology in children starting from kindergarten. But these kids are only 3 to 5 years old—they have no ability to think independently and don’t even know what the “Red Army” means. They’re just being mechanically trained from an early age to accept that “they are correct.” Schools are turning from places of teaching into party schools. We only want our children to receive a normal education, not to become political tools.

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@Thingsyoudontkw Pretty promises don’t mean there are matching actions behind them.

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@eltemagv The Soviet Union winning that war doesn’t mean it’s on the side of justice today. Besides, it partitioned Poland together with Hitler at the time.

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The secret of humanity

[Sam Ongaro @samongaro_]

What’s the biggest problem AI still can’t solve?

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@xoaanya Not sure if you’ve heard the story of Li Yizhou, the so-called “Father of Chinese AI.” In just half a year, he made 50 million RMB (about $7 million) by selling courses on how to register for ChatGPT and how to talk to it.

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I admit unsafe incidents can happen anywhere in the world, but not every country has the nerve to call itself the safest country on earth. Even without guns, there are plenty of knife-attack terrorist cases—it’s just that more of the reporting is suppressed, so ordinary people never even hear about this news.

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@Ma_WuKong 20 years ago, theft was much more common (it’s still not low now), but nowadays it has shifted more toward scams and become large-scale.

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@ZelenskyyUa Mr. President, please believe me: any Chinese person with a conscience supports Ukraine. It’s just that this isn’t Beijing’s voice—the voices of ordinary people are being suppressed.

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Why does no one in China discuss AI doomsday? Because China is discussing how to use AI to make short dramas.

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@Ma_WuKong A random street knife attack just happened in Guangdong.

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@OopsGuess Beijing’s appeals from the moral high ground are because it hasn’t yet gained control of this technology.

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Who really looks more like Hitler? If you used the Chinese model Doubao to ask certain questions, the local police station might just call you directly.

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@pawelwargan I won’t argue other points—I’ll just ask a simple fact. When exactly did rural Chinese healthcare integrate AI technology? Does rural China even have widespread medical coverage? Or do you not know what rural China actually means?

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@BobbyPolzer @clashreport DeepSeek has a Party branch.

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@clashreport Making plagiarism sound so damn self-righteous

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Worrying AI will destroy humanity is narrow-minded. Forget the tiny odds generative AI could do it—must humans assume we stand at the top of the world? We’re just ordinary “matter” from natural elements that only evolved rapidly in recent years.

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@kimmonismus I think it’s because they can’t distill it anymore.

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@DrEliDavid Technology should be in the hands of civilization