The Chinese Campaign to Shape the World’s AI Chatbots

China is pushing to become a global supplier of AI training data through a national data blueprint, released government/state-media data sets, and free repositories like WanJuan. The goal is to counter the current Western/English-language dominance of the data that shapes chatbots. Analysts and researchers say this effort is tied to spreading the Chinese Communist Party’s narratives […]

China is pushing to become a global supplier of AI training data through a national data blueprint, released government/state-media data sets, and free repositories like WanJuan. The goal is to counter the current Western/English-language dominance of the data that shapes chatbots.
Analysts and researchers say this effort is tied to spreading the Chinese Communist Party’s narratives in English, since studies have found that chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude give more Beijing-favorable answers in Chinese than in English.
Experts say the strategy is to lock developing countries, where cheap Chinese AI models are already popular, into China’s technological and ideological orbit.