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TikTok people moving to Xiaohongshu and learning that the Chinese aren't evil monsters is warming my heart. (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 day ago by Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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Seriously who could have guessed? Sure it might not amount to much but even the fact that people are learning that what the US has been teaching it's people about China has been mostly lies is amazing.

There is no way in hell this could have ever happened even when I was a kid. People were simply too racist. They still are, but the fact that even the slight reduction in racism we have in modern day is enough that Chinese people and Westerners are coming together and being cool with each other online is nothing short of a miracle.

No wonder the US hegemony hates teaching it's people foreign languages, no wonder it encourages xenophobia, that barrier was so powerful in keeping people from learning first hand what Americas "enemies" are really like.

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[–] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

there's difference in actually scanning your face and scanning faces of people appeared in a video available to public (let's be real here, they are all already scanned by all the AI companies in the US too). There's some controversial discord age verification bot through 3rd party service thing and roblox age verification that actually requires you to scan your face, that's ones that I will never submit my photo to. As long as these chinese apps do not require you to do the same, I don't see any problem with that.

[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 56 minutes ago

I deleted my social media profiles that have my face before AI and ring cameras on every house came to be. But yes, the American companies are doing the same shit. China (and Israel!) is further along in their technology but the US will catch up. I just don’t like it, there’s something about it I find extremely off putting in a generational trauma hairs on the back of my neck standing up kind of way.

I always think about how the Holocaust wouldn’t of been possible without industrialization, it was the industrialization of death. If they didn’t have the prototype to computers they would of never been able to accomplish the horrors to the level they did. AI / facial recognition / normalization of surveillance all combined seem like the next level of industrialization and all it takes is a bad actor acquiring that data and using it against marginalized people such as myself.