China's Baidu blocks political content for its image AI

Chinese tech company Baidu is blocking prompts with political content for its image AI. ERNIE-ViLG is the name of the Chinese counterpart to DALL-E 2, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. Unlike the Western AI models, ERNIE-ViLG specifically handles Chinese characters and is better with anime images. The model was trained with 145 million text-image pairs and manages ten billion parameters. By comparison, Stable Diffusion has 890 million parameters, while DALL-E 2 has a total of about 3.5 billion parameters.