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Ridiculous Chinese censorship used AI to change the gay couple in Together (2025) to a heterosexual couple
(hexbear.net)
Usually, they only censor the explicit content. But this is the first time that AI tools were used to directly alter the content of the original film.
By the way, the film has been withdrawn from a wide release in China after receiving too many complaints.
Don’t even get me started about how Shanghai single handedly sabotaged the entire national Zero Covid policy just less than three years ago lol. I am still seething.
The biggest achievement of the current premier, Li Qiang (famously the party secretary of the Shanghai branch), was giving Tesla huge incentives to build its factory in Shanghai. These people were so enamored with Elon Musk that they made Tesla the only foreign automaker company in China that does not have to partner up with a local company (not joking). And for this, he is being rewarded with a promotion to the premier position at the 20th CPC Congress (again not joking).
No, you misremembered. Shanghai wanted to go their own way, emulating Western countries with “targeted lockdown” strategy. It went out of control when Omicron hit. When the virus is all over the country, it was pretty much over. The government could no longer justify keep locking down the entire country at that point, and the Zero Covid strategy ended in January 2023 just before the Chinese New Year.
Reminder than Shenzhen has more or less the same population and density as Shanghai, and was hit by Omicron at around the same time, and succeeded with a full lockdown mode. So the argument that Shanghai couldn’t have done it better is pure bullshit.
You are correct but misunderstood my point. I remember clearly that Shenzhen and Shanghai went into lockdown around April 2022 at almost the same time, with quite a staggering outcome.
The March-April 2022 wave showed how costly it would be to get the pandemic under control again if “accidentally” allowed to be spread again. This is the lever the Shanghai libs have over the central government. When Li Qiang (who was criticized for his handling of Covid) was made Premier in October that year during the 20th CPC Congress, it was clear that the libs have regained control. By December as a new wave appeared, the Zero Covid policy would be abandoned.
No problem. I still get emotional about it lol. Maybe I am being a bit unfair against the Shanghai people haha.