As an addition:

Modern slavery in China

Since 2018, evidence of forced labour of Uyghur and other Turkic and Muslim majority peoples has emerged in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Uyghur Region). […] Forced labour imposed by private actors is also reported, in addition to forced marriage and organ trafficking, with vulnerability primarily driven by discriminatory government practices. While China demonstrated some efforts to tackle modern slavery through sustained coordination at the national and regional levels – including by adopting a new national action plan for 2021 to 2030[…] – its overall response is critically undermined by the use of state-imposed forced labour.

As an addition:

Modern slavery in China

Since 2018, evidence of forced labour of Uyghur and other Turkic and Muslim majority peoples has emerged in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Uyghur Region). […] Forced labour imposed by private actors is also reported, in addition to forced marriage and organ trafficking, with vulnerability primarily driven by discriminatory government practices. While China demonstrated some efforts to tackle modern slavery through sustained coordination at the national and regional levels – including by adopting a new national action plan for 2021 to 2030[…] – its overall response is critically undermined by the use of state-imposed forced labour.

As an addition:

Modern slavery in China

Since 2018, evidence of forced labour of Uyghur and other Turkic and Muslim majority peoples has emerged in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Uyghur Region). […] Forced labour imposed by private actors is also reported, in addition to forced marriage and organ trafficking, with vulnerability primarily driven by discriminatory government practices. While China demonstrated some efforts to tackle modern slavery through sustained coordination at the national and regional levels – including by adopting a new national action plan for 2021 to 2030[…] – its overall response is critically undermined by the use of state-imposed forced labour.

Das Problem ist, dass Shein, Temu & Co. sich nicht an die europäischen Vorgaben zum Verbraucherschutz halten und dass die auf ihren Plattformen angebotenen Produkte oft weder legal sind noch den EU-Sicherheitsnormen entsprechen. Die Inhaltsstoffe der Produkte sind etwa krebserregend und fortpflanzungsschädigend und “hundertmal giftiger als erlaubt”.

Aber ja, die Inhalte sollten geprüft werden, was nur Sinn ergibt, wenn es entlang der gesamten Lieferkette erfolgt und diese Lieferkette transparent ist. Soweit ich den Medien entnehme, ist es gerade China, das sich einer solchen Transparenz vehement entgegenstellt.

[Edit zur Tippfehlerkorrektur.]

Ja, genau. Momentan zielt die EU darauf ab, das Gesetz, von dem mir jetzt auch der Name gerade nicht einfällt, zu verwässern …

Korrigiert, danke.

Reporter besuchen „Shein-Dorf“: Wie Ultra-Fast-Fashion wirklich produziert wird

Arbeitnehmer:innen in Guangzhou [einer Provinz in China] arbeiten demnach bis zu 75 Stunden pro Woche, oft unter Verletzung chinesischer Arbeitsgesetze … Die extremen Arbeitsbedingungen ermöglichen das Ultra-Fast-Fashion-Geschäftsmodell, dem Shein seinen kometenhaften Aufstieg verdankt. Online gibt es eine gewaltige Auswahl an Kleidern, Tops und anderen Kleidungsstücken schon ab circa zwei Euro zu kaufen. Statt ein paar mal pro Jahr neue Kollektionen zu launchen, veröffentlicht Shein täglich tausende neue Designs. Das Unternehmen wurde 2023 laut BBC auf einen Marktwert von 66 Milliarden US-Dollar geschätzt, also 63,3 Milliarden Euro.

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Die Mehrheit der Befragten erzählte, sie hätten nur einen freien Tag im Monat. Eine Arbeiterin betonte dagegen: „Wenn ein Monat 31 Tage hat, arbeite ich 31 Tage.“ Eine weitere erklärte, dass sie sonntags etwa drei Stunden weniger arbeiten würde.

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… doing things properly and everything is local then Deepseek reportedly has some efficiency advantages that make it worth considering over alternatives

DeepSeek isn’t uncensored if you run it locally (https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/28978937), and this is just one issue among many others.

I never believed that myth either, but it’s been around here on Lemmy these days :-)

Yeah, the European Union is also good. For the first time in 2024, solar energy in the EU surpassed coal in generating electricity across all 27 EU member states, while natural gas production of electricity fell for the fifth year running.

In the European Union (EU), 47% of electricity now comes from renewable sources like wind and solar, a new record according to a report from the think tank Ember. This is a far higher percentage than in other countries, including the United States and China, where about two-thirds of energy comes from fossil fuels such as oil, coal, and gas.

As I said, tthe narrative that China as leading the path to a better climate is simply wrong. China’s track record regarding the fight against climate change is -very much as those of most other larger countries- an absolute disaster: https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/china

Etwas wird nicht dadurch besser, weil es vorher schon mal wer gemacht hat.

That’s an oversimplification of the article. It’s not that “we should burn fossil fuels.” China should rather stop burning them.

China’s measures to fight climate change are highly insufficient as per practically all independent metrics, and the Chinese government doesn’t appear to be even willing to reduce its emissions. It keeps on to produce a massive amount of overcapacity to to flood the world (and especially the global south) with cheap products for geopolitical and economic gains.

See my comment above regarding the state actors. The Chinese government apparently tries to influence the narratives on Tiktok.

I would also like to make some criticism of the so-called ‘manufactured consent’. Chomsky and Herman made some points on corporate media, but their conclusion is wrong. People do not consent on news just because they can’t influence the content. You can ‘manufacture the news’ -as is done by corporate media in the U.S. and ‘the West’ as well as in China by the Communist Party- but that does not mean people consent.

China, in particular, has developed sophisticated strategies to control narratives and influence public opinion through digital platforms. This phenomenon, often referred to as “networked authoritarianism,” involves state actors using subtle tactics like algorithmic manipulation and strategic content curation to shape narratives on popular social media platforms.

In addition to my comments, we can add that Wiz Research uncovered exposed DeepSeek database leaking sensitive information, including chat history.

TLDR: DeepSeek had left over a million lines of sensitive data exposed on the open internet, including digital software keys.

Deepseek ist nicht Open Source, aber die Entwickler von Hugging Face arbeiten an einer offenen Version:

Hugging Face developers are in the process of building a fully open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1

In related news:

Researchers say they had a ‘100% attack success rate’ on jailbreak attempts against Chinese AI DeepSeek

Using algorithmic jailbreaking techniques, our team applied an automated attack methodology on DeepSeek R1 which tested it against 50 random prompts from the HarmBench dataset. These covered six categories of harmful behaviors including cybercrime, misinformation, illegal activities, and general harm.

The results were alarming: DeepSeek R1 exhibited a 100% attack success rate, meaning it failed to block a single harmful prompt. This contrasts starkly with other leading models, which demonstrated at least partial resistance.

CNBC reports that DeepSeek’s privacy policy “isn’t worth the paper it is written on.”

Seems to be a long way to go, but Hugging Face developers are in the process of building a fully open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1 as the AI is not Open Source as it claims.

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Yes, it’s unblocked for a few weeks after a long investigation. The talian authorities fined OpenAI EUR 15m for GDPR violations. You can find a very detailed analysis about the issues here.