There's no Tiananmen Square in the new Chinese image-making AI

When a demo of the software was released in late August, users quickly found that certain words--both explicit mentions of political leaders' names and words that are potentially controversial only in political contexts--were labeled as "sensitive" and blocked from generating any result. China's sophisticated system of online censorship, it seems, has extended to the latest trend in AI. It's not rare for similar AIs to limit users from generating certain types of content. DALL-E 2 prohibits sexual content, faces of public figures, or medical treatment images. The ERNIE-ViLG model is part of Wenxin, a large-scale project in natural-language processing from China's leading AI company, Baidu.